More chinks in the theory of Manbearpig

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More trouble on the Manbearpig Front

Some more kinks in the Theoryof Manbearpig.  Today in The American Tinker, Jon Caruthers has a great post about the follies of man trying to tame Mother Nature.

Vanities of the Warmists

By Jon Caruthers

The conceit that scientists and bureaucrats can use the power the state to manage nature has lead to disaster in the past, and will again if the global warmists keep getting their way.

When Yellowstone National Park was first created, park officials believed they had to “save” the native fauna as well as protect the visitors by killing off the native wolf population.  This they did in grand form.  Additionally, they noticed the yearly occurrences of wildfires which, according to the then “modern” and “progressive” thought of the day, should be stamped out at all cost. 

The net result of these notions was that 110 years or so later half the park burned down.  It turns out that without the wolves the ruminants ran wild and ate up the deciduous trees, leaving only the pine trees to go forth and multiply.  Anyone who’s started a campfire knows what happens when you compound this with 110 years of pine needles and flotsam and jetsam — you end up with the perfect firestorm.  This is nothing natural.  This situation was created by us — by human intervention into a formerly pristine ecosystem that was supposedly “managed” by the federal government – and the result was that half the park burned down.

Once again, on the issue of “global warming” we’re faced with government control — in this case not of the national park system, but of the entire globe.  The “progressives” and their “grand thoughts” of the age seek to “manage” the globe in the same “modern” way  our ancestors “managed” Yellowstone.  Like our ancestors of yore, today’s environmentalists believe the government can control the environment better than Mother Nature can.  Are we to suppose that the people who give us the DMV and the IRS are going to “manage” the globe in the same efficient and benevolent manner?  In the grand scheme of things are we supposed to believe that we humans are actually better than Mother Nature at “managing” the global environment?  For some reason, the enviro-nazis of the age seem to believe that Mother Nature is some kind of octogenarian Alzheimer’s patient and they’re the designated colostomy bag.

Take the great debate over the “Atlantic Conveyor Belt” e.g. the Gulf Stream.  Recent studies have shown that glacial melting from Greenland has created a massive pool of freshwater over the Gulf Stream that has disturbed the salinity of the Atlantic Ocean and is shutting down the Gulf Stream.  Oh no, this must be a horrible event with calamitous consequences, right?  According to the Ecopalyptics, if the Gulf Stream is shut down, Europe won’t receive its relatively warm currents that mean the difference between Shropshire and Winnepeg — which are roughly on the same latitude.  As a result, Europe would be thrown into a new Ice Age, right?  Actually no.  It’s all about negative feedback.  The earth is a stable system, if it weren’t life would have disappeared billions of years ago.  It’s the negative feedback that makes life possible in the first place — if things get out of whack, there’s a system for getting them back to normality.  If the Gulf Stream fades, Arctic winds will sink south and cover Greenland, thereby cooling the island and stopping the glacial melt — thus stopping the runaway insanity of the eco-warriors’ worst nightmares.—-The American Thinker

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

H/T to Moonbattery

ALGore and his search for Manberpig is still going.

More holes in the Theory of Manbearpig

A former Manbearpig supporter has changed his mind because the scinetific equations had Manbearpig all wrong. 

Researcher: Basic Greenhouse Equations "Totally Wrong"
Michael Asher (Blog) – March 6, 2008 11:02 AM

New derivation of equations governing the greenhouse effect reveals "runaway warming" impossible.

Miklós Zágoni isn’t just a physicist and environmental researcher.  He is also a global warming activist and Hungary’s most outspoken supporter of the Kyoto Protocol. Or was.

That was until he learned the details of a new theory of the greenhouse effect, one that not only gave far more accurate climate predictions here on Earth, but Mars too. The theory was developed by another Hungarian scientist, Ferenc Miskolczi, an atmospheric physicist with 30 years of experience and a former researcher with NASA’s Langley Research Center.

After studying it, Zágoni stopped calling global warming a crisis, and has instead focused on presenting the new theory to other climatologists. The data fit extremely well.  "I fell in love," he stated at the International Climate Change Conference this week.

"Runaway greenhouse theories contradict energy balance equations," Miskolczi states.  Just as the theory of relativity sets an upper limit on velocity, his theory sets an upper limit on the greenhouse effect, a limit which prevents it from warming the Earth more than a certain amount.

How did modern researchers make such a mistake? They relied upon equations derived over 80 years ago, equations which left off one term from the final solution.

Miskolczi’s story reads like a book. Looking at a series of differential equations for the greenhouse effect, he noticed the solution — originally done in 1922 by Arthur Milne, but still used by climate researchers today — ignored boundary conditions by assuming an "infinitely thick" atmosphere. Similar assumptions are common when solving differential equations; they simplify the calculations and often result in a result that still very closely matches reality. But not always.

So Miskolczi re-derived the solution, this time using the proper boundary conditions for an atmosphere that is not infinite. His result included a new term, which acts as a negative feedback to counter the positive forcing. At low levels, the new term means a small difference … but as greenhouse gases rise, the negative feedback predominates, forcing values back down.

NASA refused to release the results.  Miskolczi believes their motivation is simple.  "Money", he tells DailyTech.  Research that contradicts the view of an impending crisis jeopardizes funding, not only for his own atmosphere-monitoring project, but all climate-change research.  Currently, funding for climate research tops $5 billion per year.
—Daily Tech

In Case You Missed It

I know that there is no where in the MSM you saw this, so the good people at American Thinker gave a rundown on what went down.  Yes, there was a conference with those evil "Manbearpig Skeptics".  There was a bunch of evil people that get money from ecil oil companies and people that want you to drink pollution and breathe in pollution.    Oh no, it was just a bunch of scientists, economists and policy wonks that have not drunk the cool-aid from the New Church of Manbearpig.

Cross posted at Grizzly Groundswell

NY Climate Conference: Journey to the Center of Warming Sanity

If you rely solely on the
mainstream media to keep informed, you may not have heard that the 2008
International Conference on Climate Change concluded in New York City
on Tuesday.  And if you have heard anything — this being primarily a
forum of skeptics — it was likely of a last gasp effort by
"flat-Earthers" sponsored by right-wingers in the pockets of big-oil to
breathe life into their dying warming denial agenda. Well, having just
returned from the 3 day event, I’m happy to report that the struggle
against the ravages of warming alarmism is not only alive, but
healthier than ever.

Granting
a long overdue forum to noted dissenting scientists, economists and
policy experts from around the world, the Heartland Institute-sponsored
symposium at the Marriott Marquis offered welcomed reasoned analysis as
alternative to last December’s hysterical circus which was Bali.  It also served as the perfect launch point for a long-awaited un-IPCC report — Nature,
Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate: Summary for Policymakers of the
Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change [PDF].

Compiling
the work of over 20 prominent fellow researchers, editor Fred Singer’s
NIPCC report distinguishes itself from the recent IPCC Fourth
Assessment (AR4) and its predecessors in that it was not
pre-programmed to "support the hypotheses of anthropogenic warming
(AGW) and the control of greenhouse gases."  Instead, the nearly 50
page document is a non-political authoritative rebuttal to the
multi-government controlled IPCC’s "errors and outright falsehoods"
regarding warming’s measurement, likely drivers, and overall impact.

And
its ultimate conclusion of  "natural causes and a moderate warming
trend with beneficial effects for humanity and wildlife" set the
perfect framework for speakers and panelists – many of whom contributed
to the NIPCC — to elaborate on the summit’s "Global warming is not a
crisis" theme. —American Thinker

 

More troubles for AlGore and His Disciples

In more bad news for the New Church of Manbearpib, Fred Singer has a good editorial about howthe Supreme Court should look into the case that the 9th Circus Court declared CO2 a pollutant.

H/T Right Truth

Courts Confront Climate Change
January 24, 2008
S. Fred Singer
Washington Times

Late last year, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration must consider the “risks of global warming” when setting gas-mileage standards for light trucks, minivans and SUVs.

Central to the court’s ruling was the claim that NHTSA, in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act, had ignored the benefits of reducing emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2).

Whatever their legal acumen, Justice Betty Fletcher and her colleagues on the bench demonstrated they have little expertise in climate science. Tighter restrictions on CO2 emissions cannot produce the imagined benefits. Greenhouse gas emissions occur globally: The court’s mandate will not measurably curb CO2 levels or global warming.

The court also assumed that human activity is the main cause of global warming. This has yet to be demonstrated by hard evidence.

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) points to glacial melting, shrinking sea ice, and other consequences of global warming. But such “evidence” doesn’t tell us whether the causes are natural or manmade. Other evidence, such as the claimed correlation between temperature and CO2, is circumstantial; during much of the 20th century the climate was cooling while CO2 levels were rising.

A forthcoming report by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), of which I am the editor, may provide needed balance. An independent organization, not sponsored by the United Nations, national governments, or industry, NIPCC—which includes many IPCC authors and expert reviewers—was created to provide a second opinion on the IPCC’s official findings, much as a physician’s diagnosis may warrant a second opinion.—The Independent Institute

Weather Channel founder wants to sue AlGore

This is great,the founderof the Weather Channel wants to sue AlGore and his disciples over Manbearpig.

Weather Channel Founder Blasts Network; Claims It Is ‘Telling Us What to Think’
TWC founder and global warming skeptic advocates suing Al Gore to expose ‘the fraud of global warming.’

The Weather Channel has lost its way, according to John Coleman, who founded the channel in 1982.

     Coleman told an audience at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 3 in New York that he is highly critical of global warming alarmism.

     “The Weather Channel had great promise, and that’s all gone now because they’ve made every mistake in the book on what they’ve done and how they’ve done it and it’s very sad,” Coleman said. “It’s now for sale and there’s a new owner of The Weather Channel will be announced – several billion dollars having changed hands in the near future. Let’s hope the new owners can recapture the vision and stop reporting the traffic, telling us what to think and start giving us useful weather information.”—Business & Media Institute

Manbearpig to be taught in California schools

Yes, the Goracle’s Manbearpig will be forced upon the children in the land of Fruits and Nuts. California is going to mandate that Manbearpig willl be taught to school children, even though there is no proof of Manbearpig.  But what do you expect from a State that is run by Defeatocrats.  Just wait until Obamarama gets into the White House.

H/T to Moonbattery

Bill would require California’s science curriculum to cover climate change

SOME THINK SCIENCE ISN’T DEFINITIVE ENOUGH TO TEACH

By Paul Rogers
Mercury News

Reading, writing and . . . global warming?

A Silicon Valley lawmaker is gaining momentum with a bill that would require "climate change" to be among the science topics that all California public school students are taught.

The measure, by state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, also would mandate that future science textbooks approved for California public schools include climate change.

"You can’t have a science curriculum that is relevant and current if it doesn’t deal with the science behind climate change," Simitian said. "This is a phenomenon of global importance and our kids ought to understand the science behind that phenomenon."

The state Senate approved the bill, SB 908, Jan. 30 by a 26-13 vote. It heads now to the state Assembly. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken numerous actions to reduce global warming, but he has yet to weigh in on Simitian’s bill. Other Republicans in the Capitol, however, are not happy about the proposal.

Some say the science on global warming isn’t clear, while others worry the bill would inject environmental propaganda into classrooms.

"I find it disturbing that this mandate to teach this theory is not accompanied by a requirement that the discussion be science-based and include a critical analysis of all sides of the subject," said Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, during the Senate debate.

Only two Republicans voted for the bill, Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-San Luis Obispo, and Sen. Tom Harman, R-Costa Mesa. Maldonado’s district includes Los Gatos, Morgan Hill, parts of San Jose, Scotts Valley, Watsonville and Monterey. Harman represents Orange County. All 13 of the no votes were from Republicans.–Mercury News

Nessie a vicim of Manbearpig

Mnabearpig has put an end to Nessie the Lochness Monster, at least according to Robert Rines.

H/T to Moonbattery

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Despite having hundreds of sonar contacts over the years, the trail has since gone cold and Rines believes that Nessie may be dead, a victim of global warming.

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Now I definitely heard it all.