We are all going to die #34,987,234,047,234

Yes we got 1year or we are all going to die in a great ball of fire, or drought that Hanson has predicted the Midwest  was going  to have over 20 years ago.  Geez, that came out to be true didn;t it???   So every stock up on food items because the end of the world is coming if Obamassih is not elected in Novemeber.  You heard it first from the KosKids.

Now on to our intrepid reporter PJ Comix

"We have ONE year.. ONE election"

Remember all the propaganda we were fed about how Global Warming is a non-partisan issue? Well, it turns out it was all hogwash. No big surprise there. The Left is now enlisting Global Warming alarmism on a big scale to help get Barack Obama elected as you can see in this KOmmie THREAD titled, "Hansen on Global Warming: We have ONE year.. ONE election." Yes, me must elect Obama or it will be the END OF THE WORLD!!! It turns out that James Hansen has been making Global Warming alarmist WARNINGS for at least 20 years. In 1988 he predicted severe dought was coming to the midwest. Five years later, in 1993, the Midwest experienced extreme flooding. Also check out the current flooding in the Midwest to see just how accurate Hansen has been in his predictions. One might as well consult Jean Dixon in predicting climate change. However, the KOmmies turn to Hansen as some sort of prophet to help them elect their beloved Obama. So let us now watch the KOmmies play the Global Warming Alarmist card in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, noting that the weatherman is lucky if he can predict the weather correctly just 3 days in advance, is in the [barackets]:

Hansen on Global Warming: We have ONE year.. ONE election

[Or your KOmmie brains will fry.]

In 2006, the great climate scientist James Hansen famously said

[Something as "accurate" as his prediction about Midwest drought?]

"I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change … no longer than a decade, at the most."

[He needs that same script for use in 2016.]

Since then, things have gotten much, much worse. The Arctic ice is melting faster than expected. CO2 emissions are accelerating. Global warming is accelerating.

[Don’t forget about that drought in the Midwest.]

Hansen no longer stands by his estimate that we have one decade to turn things around. He now thinks that was too optimistic. Today, James Hansen told congress that we have one year.

[Translation: Elect Barack Obama or we all DIE!!!]

We have one year. One election.

[Elect Obama. Elect Obama. ELECT OBAMA!!!]

And simply winning is not enough.. we will need radical changes in policy.

[TRANSLATION: We need Global Warming as an excuse to institute socialism.]

And if we lose…

[You will be joining the Heavens Gate cult aboard the Mother Ship. And now to the rest of the KOmmies…]

Most coverage has focussed on his statement that oil CEOs should be prosecuted. This is interesting, but I think misses the point of his testimony.

[Thanx for that confirmation that Hansen is indeed a leftwing loon.]

It’s time to stop Climaticide and that means working for justice as well as having the right policies. Without justice there will be cynicism and cynicism plays into the hands of the denialists and the tactics of disinformation.

[LOL! "Climaticide." I definitely have to file that word away with "Freudenschade."]

The warming of the Arctic is beginning to look irreversible. There are positive feedbacks that are amplifying inputs. Sea ice melting is causing more warming and more warm Atlantic water flowing into the Arctic.

[Gee! Then how is it that we can still watch Ice Road Truckers who drive right over the frozen Arctic ocean?]

Republican ideology will block any meaningful. Climate related reform into the foreseeable future. We all might as well accept extinction because nothing will change in the USA in terms of politics. The only conceivable circumstance that might avoid extinction of humanity is if the oil economy suffers catastrophic and irreversible loss. Which, given Republican Rapturist ideology, is always possible via warmongering, most likely Iran. Even the complete melting of Greenland won’t stop the greed and selfishness of Republicans.

[EVIL Republicans!!! It’s all their fault! So much for that hype about Global Warming being a non-partisan issue.]

He seems to be mixing a bunch of stuff. One moment, it is "99% certain." The next he’s saying there will be 2-meter sea level rise this century, which is certanly not in IPCC projections.

[Don’t stop Hansen. He’s on a roll.]

Considering that we will not take power for 7 more months – we have a little problem here.

[Which will pale in comparison to the HUGE mental problem you will have in 7 months if you do NOT take power.]

Hansen’s superlative reputation makes his increasingly edgy statements deeply disturbing.

[Yeah. I found his statements about Midwest drought deeply disturbing.] —DUmmie FUnnies

The Goracle has some explaining to do

Looks like the Goracle has some explaining to do.   He used more energy this year than last year.

Energy Guzzled by Al Gore’s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for a Month
Gore’s personal electricity consumption up 10%, despite “energy-efficient” home renovations

NASHVILLE – In the year since Al Gore took steps
to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s
home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center
for Policy Research.

“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does
behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President
of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite
and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging
by his home energy consumption.”

In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours
(kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households
for a month.

In February 2007, An Inconvenient Truth, a film based on a climate
change speech developed by Gore, won an Academy Award for best
documentary feature. The next day, the Tennessee Center for Policy
Research uncovered that Gore’s Nashville home guzzled 20 times more
electricity than the average American household.

After the Tennessee Center for Policy Research exposed Gore’s massive
home energy use, the former Vice President scurried to make his home
more energy-efficient. Despite adding solar panels, installing a
geothermal system, replacing existing light bulbs with more efficient
models, and overhauling the home’s windows and ductwork, Gore now
consumes more electricity than before the “green” overhaul.

Since taking steps to make his home more environmentally-friendly last
June, Gore devours an average of 17,768 kWh per month –1,638 kWh more
energy per month than before the renovations – at a cost of $16,533. By
comparison, the average American household consumes 11,040 kWh in an
entire year, according to the Energy Information Administration.

In the wake of becoming the most well-known global warming alarmist,
Gore won an Oscar, a Grammy and the Nobel Peace Prize. In addition,
Gore saw his personal wealth increase by an estimated $100 million
thanks largely to speaking fees and investments related to global
warming hysteria.

“Actions speak louder than words, and Gore’s actions prove that he
views climate change not as a serious problem, but as a money-making
opportunity,” Johnson said. “Gore is exploiting the public’s concern
about the environment to line his pockets and enhance his profile.”

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a Nashville-based free market
think tank and watchdog organization, obtained information about Gore’s
home energy use through a public records request to the Nashville
Electric Service.

Tennessee Center for Policy Research

The Grey Lady Gets It – ManBearPig is Hysteria

From National Review On-Line. 

Even The New York Review of Books Sees It   [Peter Wehner]

The current issue (June 12) of The New York Review of Books includes by Freeman Dyson, professor of physics emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He reviews two books on global warming: A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies by William Nordhaus; and Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto, edited by Ernesto Zedillo.

Professor Dyson, a renowned theoretical physicist and mathematician famous for his work in, among other things, quantum mechanics, believes in anthropogenic global warming. But he also believes that there is a dangerous tendency among an increasing number of advocates of global warming to be “dogmatic” and shut down the debate. In that context, the concluding three paragraphs of Dyson’s New York Review of Books essay are worth highlighting:

All the books that I have seen about the science and economics of global warming, including the two books under review, miss the main point.  The main point is religious rather than scientific.  There is a worldwide secular religion which we may call environmentalism, holding that we are stewards of the earth, that despoiling the planet with waste products of our luxurious living is a sin, and that the path of righteousness is to live as frugally as possible.  The ethics of environmentalism are being taught to children in kindergartens, schools, and colleges all over the world.

Environmentalism has replaced socialism as the leading secular religion.  And the ethics of environmentalism are fundamentally sound.  Scientists and economists can agree with Buddhist monks and Christian activists that ruthless destruction of natural habitats is evil and careful preservation of birds and butterflies is good. The worldwide community of environmentalists – most of whom are not scientists – holds the moral high ground, and is guiding human societies toward a hopeful future.  Environmentalism, as a religion of hope and respect for nature, is here to stay.  This is a religion that we can all share, whether or not we believe that global warming is harmful.

Unfortunately, some members of the environmental movement have also adopted as an article of faith the belief that global warming is the greatest threat to the ecology of our planet.  That is one reason why the arguments about global warming have become bitter and passionate.  Much of the public has come to believe that anyone who is skeptical about the dangers of global warming is an enemy of the environment.  The skeptics now have the difficult task of convincing the public that the opposite is true.  Many of the skeptics are passionate environmentalists.  They are horrified to see the obsession with global warming distracting public attention from what they see as more serious and more immediate dangers to the planet, including problems of nuclear weaponry, environmental degradation, and social injustice. Whether they turn out to be right or wrong, their arguments on these issues deserve to be heard. [emphasis added]

Source:  http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTJkZTYwODY5YzJmZTgyMDg5MDg2MDc5NzI3NDZmMzE=

Julia

Uh Oh. AL Gore has some splanin to do

Yes, of course we all know about the "consensus" over Manpbearpig.  But it looks like more and more scientists are debunking that and now at least 31,000 signatures are being put on a petition denouncing the theory of  Manbearpig. But do not tell AlGore his Royal "pain in the ass Prince Albert in a can" Charles about this because the Goracle wants the next genereation to be one of those great generations of heros that will save the Earth from the Burning Ring of Fire, and Prince Chuckie says we got 18 months to live.

Cross posted at Grizzly Groundswell and Fort Hard Knox

H/T to Hoosier Army Mom

Bet you won’t see this on CNN tonight!  The Mainstream Media chooses what they want you to know, and it will be no different on this. 

From:  The National Press Club Online

10:00 AM  OISM (News Conference)

Description: MEDIA ADVISORY: Dr. Arthur Robinson (OISM) to release names of over 30,000 scientists rejecting global warming hypothesis.Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM)

Who: Dr. Arthur Robinson of the OISM

What: release of names in OISM “Petition Project”

When: 10:00am on Monday May 19

Where: Holeman Lounge at the National Press Club, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, DC

Why: the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) will announce that more than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition rejecting claims of human-caused global warming. The purpose of OISM’s Petition Project is to demonstrate that the claim of “settled science” and an overwhelming “consensus” in favor of the hypothesis of human-caused global warming and consequent climate damage is wrong. No such consensus or settled science exists. As indicated by the petition text and signatory list, a very large number of American scientists reject this hypothesis.

It is evident that 31,072 Americans with university degrees in science — including 9,021 PhDs, are not “a few.” Moreover, from the clear and strong petition statement that they have signed, it is evident that these 31,072 American scientists are not “skeptics.”

Following the Press Club event, Dr. Robinson will host a lunch briefing on the Hill. Interested parties may join him in the Environment and Public Works hearing room, 406 Dirksen at noon for lunch on Monday May 19.

Please indicate whether you will attend the lunch by emailing audrey@advocacyink.com with your contact info and affiliation.

Sponsored by:Oregon Institute of Science & Medicine

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The American Thinker

IS AlGore shivering in his boots???

Cross posted at Grizzly Groundwell

It is pretty sad when the disciples of the New Church of Manbearig go to this kind of extreme to fool the public.   Now the cooling period that is natural is going to slow down Manbearpig for a little bit, but he will come back stronger after his slumber.   On its face this is just ridiculous, if natural climate change can slow down Manbearpig, how can we even believe there is a Manbearpig out there. I thought that Manbearpig was unstoppable and we need to find him before the Earth is a "Burning Ring of Fire".  But I guess the inconvenient truth is that the Goracle made Manbearpig up to make money and to help his friends get grant money to look for Manbearpig.   

See, the climate of the Earth can not be changed by a mythical creature such and Manberapig.   It has more to do with the cycles of the Sun, the Oceans and the orbit of the Earth.  And there are many other factors that the models the Climate hysterics can never ever put into a computer model.   CO2 the big bad gas is only abut .002% of Global Warming.   And all the treaties and regulations will never change the cycles that the Climate goes through.  An just follow the money that goes to all the acolytes of AlGore.  If there was not a catastrophy around the corner, how would these "scientists" live.  They are not "scientists" or "climate experts", they are politicians.

Today on American Thinker, Marc Sheppard has a great post about the silliness of the Global Warming alarmists reaction to the cooling that the Earth is going through right now.

Are Global Warmists Pulling a Cool Fast One?

By Marc Sheppard

Mounting evidence of lower temperature trends despite rising atmospheric CO² levels
is becoming a real problem for the greenhouse gas crowd.  And reports
that the cooling appears to follow a period of dormant solar activity
aren’t likely to ease their anxieties.

Indeed,
without an immediate alarmist course correction, years of "the science
is settled" campaigning could prove for naught, as prolonged
temperature dips decimate the primary anthropogenic argument.  After
all, Lord Gore has shouted the IPCC’s proclamation of a 0.3°C warming
over the next decade from virtually every rooftop.  Given new data
projecting the contrary, he and his green hordes will need to find a
way to not only explain the error, but keep the AGW dream alive.

And perhaps they have.

On April 21^st, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed
that an impending phase shift in a natural climate event would likely
bring colder temperatures for as many as the next 20-30 years, noting
that:

"The
shift in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, with its widespread Pacific
Ocean temperature changes, will have significant implications for
global climate. It can affect Pacific and Atlantic hurricane activity,
droughts and flooding around the Pacific basin, marine ecosystems and
global land temperature patterns."

Well
aware of the impact the news might have on the green-deity IPCC’s
warming predictions, the JPL was quick to add that "Sea level rise and
global warming due to increases in greenhouse gases can be strongly
affected by large natural climate phenomenon such as the Pacific
Decadal Oscillation and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation."  JPL
oceanographer and climate scientist Josh Willis explained:

"The
comings and goings of El Niño, La Niña and the Pacific Decadal
Oscillation are part of a longer, ongoing change in global climate. In
fact, these natural climate phenomena can sometimes hide global warming
caused by human activities. Or they can have the opposite effect of
accentuating it."

Just
10 days later, the results of a model study on another phenomenon, this
time affecting the North Atlantic, were published in the journal Nature [PDF]. Dr Noel Keenlyside et al,
of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Germany, reported that
the "conveyor belt" of southern warm water known as the Meridional
Overturning Circulation is entering a weak cycle.  As weak MOC cycles
— which can last as many as 80 years — are associated with cooler
North Atlantic temperatures, particularly around Europe and North
America, the team expects global surface temperatures to decrease over
the next decade.  Oddly, a similar pattern between the 1940s and 1970s
may explain the cooling of global average temperatures during that
period, so assuming only the "next decade" seems an arbitrary call.

Nonetheless, the German scientists felt compelled to explain their evident heresy against the church of the IPCC:

"Our
results suggest that global surface temperature may not increase over
the next decade, as natural climate variations in the North Atlantic
and tropical Pacific temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic
warming."

In case "temporarily offset" proved too vague to the green brigade, Keenlyside clarified when explaining to Bloomberg News:

"If
we don’t experience warming over the next 10 years, it doesn’t mean
that greenhouse-gas warming is not with us. There can be natural
fluctuations that may mask climate change in the short term.”

And
for the benefit of those still concerned, his associate Mojib Latif, a
professor at the Leibniz Institute, spelled it out in no uncertain
terms:

"Just to make things clear, we are not stating that anthropogenic climate change won’t be as bad as previously thought."

It certainly appeared to be merely a typical cover your green ass move

The Very Model of a Modern Solar Minimum

According to UK’s Telegraph
the report stemmed from "initial findings from a new computer model of
how the oceans behave over decades," and readers were reminded that:

"The
IPCC currently does not include in its models actual records of such
events as the strength of the Gulf Stream and the El Nino cyclical
warming event in the Pacific, which are known to have been behind the
warmest year ever recorded in 1998."

Of
course, solar activity is also essentially ignored by IPCC models, and
it too saw an apex in 1998.  Isn’t it interesting how, not unlike
insects scampering from light exposed by a stone overturned, greenies
struggle desperately to avoid directly confronting the power of the Sun?

Last year, Britain’s Hadley Centre, whose decadal models actually do
incorporate sea surface temperatures as well as projected changes in
the Sun’s output and the effects of previous volcanic eruptions, predicted
that global warming would slow until 2009 and pick up after that, with
half the years after 2009 being warmer than the warmest year on record,
1998." Still, they stood solidly behind the IPCC by predicting that
"Over the 10-year period as a whole, climate continues to warm and 2014
is likely to be 0.3 deg C warmer than 2004."

Then, this past January, the Centre predicted 2008 would be the coolest since 2000, this time based upon the "strong La Niña in the tropical Pacific Ocean" exclusively.
Mysteriously, they completely ignored recent news at the time that
solar activity had all but come to a stop — a factor supposedly
included in their modeling.

But
last week, rather than disputing the Leibniz Institute
oceans-behavior-only model that suggests not only Hadley, but the IPCC
itself erred, the Centre’s Richard Wood stated:

"We’ve
always known that the climate varies naturally from year to year and
decade to decade.  We expect man-made global warming to be superimposed
on those natural variations; and this kind of research is important to
make sure we don’t get distracted from the longer term changes that
will happen in the climate (as a result of greenhouse gas emissions)."

Seemingly
taking a bullet for the green team, Wood ‘fessed up to last year’s bad
prediction when he told reporters that "natural climate variations
could be stronger than the global-warming trend over the next 10-year
period."

Pretty slick — by jumping aboard the new model’s bandwagon, Wood managed to again ignore the Solar factor (Cycle 24 is
delayed) while extending the bogus it’s-part-nature-but-mostly-mankind
safety-net his group’s models had strung by almost 10 years. 

On
the other hand, in addition to casting great doubt upon his own group’s
models, Wood’s admission bolstered the doubt that Leibniz’s would
already cast upon those of the IPCC.  And Wood notwithstanding, as Dr.
Roger Pelke Jr. pointed out in his April 30^th Prometheus post after reviewing the Nature piece:

"If
global cooling over the next few decades is consistent with model
predictions, then so too is pretty much anything and everything under
the sun. This means that from a practical standpoint climate models are
of no practical use beyond providing some intellectual authority in the
promotional battle over global climate policy."

Obviously,
capitulating now meant accepting the risk of jeopardizing whatever
credibility all previous and future climate models may hold.  Bad move
— or chess move?

Does Anybody Really Know What Climate Is?

 

Prior
to its official release, Keenlyside expressed concerns that his report
might be taken the "wrong way."  The good doctor even attempted to
trivialize dissenters by invoking the name of a favorite eco-boogieman
when he lamely lamented "I hope it doesn’t become a message of Exxon
Mobil and other skeptics."  And just in case his and his colleagues’
tepid reaffirmations of their AGW pledges fell short of the green mark,
reinforcements were immediately dispatched.

Not surprisingly, the alarmist shills at the BBC wrote that the up and down projections "did not come as a surprise to climate scientists."  No, according to these insufferables,
only the ill-informed public ever believed that "the rapid temperature
rises seen through the 1990s are a permanent phenomenon."   

The New York Times
rolled out Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center
for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, CO. Tremberth told them that "the
global climate will continue to be influenced in any particular decade
by a mix of natural variability and the building greenhouse effect" and
that "a cool phase does not mean the overall theory of dangerous
human-driven warming is flawed."

And then added what appears to be the latest greenie talking point:

"Too many think global warming means monotonic relentless warming everywhere year after year. It does not happen that way."

Is
anyone else noticing a trend developing here, beyond the "we never said
that warming patterns would be steady" shuffle?  Each explanation,
whether by Willis, Keenlyside and Latif, Wood, or Trenberth implies
that some climate forces natural are more formidable than those
anthropogenic. This is yet another precarious admission, indeed – one
unlikely to be made were the alternative not somehow more damaging to
their cause.

Now
consider this —  it remains an alarmist imperative to disassociate
falling global temperatures and speculation of a possible impending
"little ice age" with the yellow dwarf star we orbit in general and the
late start of Solar Cycle 24 specifically.  For indeed, if we are moving into another solar minimum cycle and global temperatures continue to plummet while atmospheric CO₂
levels continue to rise, attendance at Al Gore’s
Scare-Story-Slide-Shows would quickly drop to close friends and family
only.  And with boat loads of very bad wealth-redistribution "climate
change" legislation to pass in coming the years, a sympathetically
alarmed press and populace remain essential during that time.

So
what better way to buy time than to cloud the obvious solar connection
by sacrificing their argument against a less threatening naturally
occurring force?  And then attributing that force to
occasional periods of cooling by collectively admitting to its
mitigating impact upon AGW forces?   Especially when this little gambit
allows them to continue reaping the benefits – for years to come – of
the lie that an unchecked anthropogenic greenhouse gas effect threatens
to literally destroy us all.

Just not quite as fast as they originally thought.

So then, are the greenies simply playing defense, as they have led many to believe – or is it we who are being played?

Marc Sheppard is a frequent contributor to American Thinker and welcomes your feedback.

McCain on the lookout for Manbearpig now

It looks like John McCain has drank the Gracles cool-aide. He has fallen for the bamboozling Mnabearpig  myth.  Raymond S. Kraft hasan Open Letter to McCain to nnot fall for the Goracle’s false prophet Manbearpig.

H/T to Right Truth

Global Warming? An Open Letter to John McCain

Raymond S. Kraft

Dear Mr. McCain

It seems that some leading Republicans such as yourself, Newt Gingrich, and even President Bush, have accepted the premise of Anthropogenic Global Warming – that man is spewing millions of tons of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere each year, and that this is causing an unprecedented rise in earth’s temperature that threatens us all. And, if we spend enough money to reduce CO2 emissions, we can change it.

I urge you to reconsider. More than 19,000 scientists have signed the Global Warming Petition to protest the

Kyoto

accord, and declare their opposition to the theory that man’s CO2 emissions are causing Global Warming (the Global Warming Petition at http://www.oism.org/pproject/). Written and sponsored by Dr. Frederick Seitz, past president of the National Academy of Sciences, the Petition reads:

Global Warming Petition

"We urge the

United States

government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in

Kyoto

,

Japan

, in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases, is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of Earth’s climate. Morever, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide [willl] produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth."

There is certainly no "consensus."  The IPCC Report on Global Warming (2007) from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states that it was "reviewed" by 600 authors from 40 countries, and over 620 experts and governments. The 19,000 scientists who have signed the Global Warming Petition outnumber those who have "reviewed" the IPCC report by more than 15 to 1.

The illustrations below are from www.GlobalWarmingArt.com, a website created to graphically illustrate the evidence for Global Warming Theory, and since they were created by proponents of Global Warming Theory, I will adopt them, and stipulate to their accuracy, and explain very simply why this evidence produced by the Global Warming proponents proves them wrong.

The Global Warming theorists always point to rises in temperature (by fractions of a degree) within the last 200 years, or the last 1,000 years, but such a small sample of climate history is not historically representative, and is not a large enough data set to be scientifically meaningful. It’s cherry-picking the evidence. To be intellectually honest, we must look at all the evidence we have, not just a small fraction of it. To be scientifically meaningful, we must look to the long history of climate changes, as shown in the six illustrations below.—Family Security Matters

Get your long underwear out

Manbearpig might be going extinct.  We  may be heading for another Ice Age or at least another cooling period in the Eath’s Climate.  See, the Climate of theEarth coincides with the amount of SunSpots on that big Orange thing in the sky. Sun Spots have an impact on the temperature of the Earth more than all the CO2 we could produce.  We know this because the temperature on Mars, Venus and all the other planets in our Solar System have warmed at the same rate as the Earth has. And what is in common with all of these planets, The Sun.  So it is a pretty well known fact that the Sun affects the Climate here on Earth and on our sister planets.  But now there is a disturbng trend in the cycle of the Sun.  There are no Sun Spots, and that corresponds to cooler temperatures. And could lead to another Ice Age. Forget all of what the Global Warming fanatics tell you, a cooler Earth is more dangerous to hunankind than a warmer Earth.  Without the warmth the Sun, plants do not grow in the Temperate regions of the Earth. Just ask France about that, starvation and failed crops lead to the French Revolution.   

This is not a post to scare you into thinking the Ice Age is right around the corner. If indeed we are going into a Ice Age, it will take a long time for the Ice to cover the continents.  But as happened in the Little Ice Age, we could be in for harsher winters and more Glacial Ice. And this is not to say also that this is absolutely going to happen either.  The earth’s Climate is almost impossible to predict to the nth degree, but we have not had any kind of warming in the past decade and 2007 had the most dramatic drop in temperatures ever. So we could be in the down trend of temperature for awhile.   So I wouldn’t get my swimsuit out for Siberia for a while.

And HappyAggravation Day to you all in LA.

Cross Posted at Grizzly Groundswell and Fort Hard Knox

H/T to Ace of Spades

Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh

THE scariest photo I have seen on the internet is http://www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, located in deep space at the equilibrium point between solar and terrestrial gravity.

What is scary about the picture is that there is only one tiny sunspot.

Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.

All four agencies that track Earth’s temperature (the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Christy group at the University of Alabama, and Remote Sensing Systems Inc in California) report that it cooled by about 0.7C in 2007. This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and it puts us back where we were in 1930. If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over.

There is also plenty of anecdotal evidence that 2007 was exceptionally cold. It snowed in Baghdad for the first time in centuries, the winter in China was simply terrible and the extent of Antarctic sea ice in the austral winter was the greatest on record since James Cook discovered the place in 1770.

It is generally not possible to draw conclusions about climatic trends from events in a single year, so I would normally dismiss this cold snap as transient, pending what happens in the next few years.

This is where SOHO comes in. The sunspot number follows a cycle of somewhat variable length, averaging 11 years. The most recent minimum was in March last year. The new cycle, No.24, was supposed to start soon after that, with a gradual build-up in sunspot numbers.

It didn’t happen. The first sunspot appeared in January this year and lasted only two days. A tiny spot appeared last Monday but vanished within 24 hours. Another little spot appeared this Monday. Pray that there will be many more, and soon.

The reason this matters is that there is a close correlation between variations in the sunspot cycle and Earth’s climate. The previous time a cycle was delayed like this was in the Dalton Minimum, an especially cold period that lasted several decades from 1790.

Northern winters became ferocious: in particular, the rout of Napoleon’s Grand Army during the retreat from Moscow in 1812 was at least partly due to the lack of sunspots.

That the rapid temperature decline in 2007 coincided with the failure of cycle No.24 to begin on schedule is not proof of a causal connection but it is cause for concern.

It is time to put aside the global warming dogma, at least to begin contingency planning about what to do if we are moving into another little ice age, similar to the one that lasted from 1100 to 1850.

There is no doubt that the next little ice age would be much worse than the previous one and much more harmful than anything warming may do. There are many more people now and we have become dependent on a few temperate agricultural areas, especially in the US and Canada. Global warming would increase agricultural output, but global cooling will decrease it. —The Australian

More chinks in the theory of Manbearpig

Read the report here (pdf)

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Goracle to spend $300 million to find Manbearpig

Yes, the Goracleis going on a spending spreee to get the message out about Manbearpig.  If you have any information,please call the Goracle or you local Church of Manbearpig, because the Goracle is cereal.

Gore Announces 3-Year ‘We’ Campaign to Combat Global Warming

Monday, March 31, 2008

NASHVILLE, Tenn. —  Former Vice President Al Gore on Monday launched a three-year, multimillion-dollar advocacy campaign calling for the U.S. to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

The Alliance for Climate Protection’s campaign, dubbed "we," will combine advertising, online organizing and partnerships with grassroots groups to educate the public about global warming and urge solutions from elected officials.

"We’re trying to get a movement happening to switch public opinion so that our leaders feel, ‘Wow! We really need to make this a top priority issue,"’ Alliance CEO Cathy Zoi told The Associated Press.

An advertising campaign will equate the climate-change movement with other grand historic endeavors, like stopping fascism in Europe during World War II, overcoming segregation in the United States and putting the first man on the moon.

Some advertisements will feature bipartisan pairs, such as the Rev. Al Sharpton with Pat Robertson and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with former Speaker Newt Gingrich, Zoi said.

The Alliance will initially spend $300 million over three years, although Zoi said more could be spent in the future.—FoxNews

CEI’s new ad against the myth of the Goracle

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ALGore and his search for Manberpig is still going.