December 2008 Archives

By Elmer Beauregard

2008 In Many Ways Was The Beginning of The End For Global Warming

It's funny how things go sometimes, one moment you're on top of the world, the next you're having rotten tomatoes thrown at you, I wouldn't be standing next to Al Gore much these days. But people hang their hats on things, like sports teams, the stock market and yes even the weather, and as long as the stock market goes up or your team is winning things are good. But temperatures, like the stock market in 2008 went the wrong way, which made it a very bad year for all those people whose livelihood depends on warming weather.

by Arthur Bruzzone, SF Politics Examiner

NASA temperature figures show agency reworking recent numbers upwards, older numbers downwards

The UN global warming conference held in Poland last week faced a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore.

Set for release this week, a newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN.

Written by Michael Asher, DailyTech

Scientist fired by Al Gore was told, "science will not intrude on public policy".

Noted energy expert and Princeton physicist Dr. Will Happer has sharply criticized global warming alarmism. Happer, author of over 200 scientific papers and a past director of energy research at the Department of Energy, called fears over global warming "mistaken".

"I have spent a long research career studying physics that is closely related to the greenhouse effect", said Happer. "Fears about man-made global warming are unwarranted and are not based on good science."

Deroy Murdock, Ventura County Star

Winter officially arrives with Sunday's solstice. But for many Americans, autumn 2008's final days already feel like deepest, coldest January.

New Englanders still lack electricity after a Dec. 11 ice storm snapped power lines. Up to 8 inches of snow struck New Orleans and southern Louisiana that day and didn't melt for 48 hours in some neighborhoods.

In Southern California this week, a half-inch of snow brightened Malibu's hills while a half-foot barricaded highways and marooned commuters in desert towns east of Los Angeles. Three inches of the white stuff shuttered Las Vegas' McCarren Airport that day and dusted the Strip's hotels and casinos.

Marc Morano – EPW.Senate.gov

UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims

POZNAN, Poland - The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore. Set for release this week, a newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN. The report has added about 250 scientists (and growing) in 2008 to the over 400 scientists who spoke out in 2007. The over 650 dissenting scientists are more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
- Adolf Hitler

CHICAGO (AFP) – President-elect Barack Obama said Tuesday his administration would brook no further delay in tackling climate change after discussing global warming with former vice president Al Gore.

Sitting between Gore and his vice president-elect Joseph Biden following the hour-long meeting, Obama told reporters: "All three of us are in agreement that the time for delay is over. The time for denial is over.

By Elmer Beauregard

When you first glance at the chart from my last blog entry it sure looks like Global Warming is for real, after 1990 the bars never go into the blue zone. But how can this be when 1934 is still the hottest year on record, this chart makes it look like 1998 is the hottest?

If you look at the charts from Minnesota there is a lot of ups and downs but no clear warming trend.

The thing that these skewed charts never take into account is the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990. This brought the number of reporting weather stations around the world down from a high of 15,000 in 1970 to 5,000 in 2000. This takes some of the coldest places on the planet out of the equation, like Siberia.

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Good Chart

Here is a page with the number of reporting stations at GISS if you click anywhere in Russia especially in Siberia, notice how many stations went offline around 1990.

Here is a another good article

James Randerson, the guardian

This year is set to be the coolest since 2000, according to a preliminary estimate of global average temperature that is due to be released next week by the Met Office. The global average for 2008 should come in close to 14.3C, which is 0.14C below the average temperature for 2001-07.

By becoming a member of Minnesotans For Global Warming, you not only get a shirt a DVD a Bumper Sticker and a Certificate, you get the satisfaction that you are helping a good cause.

Now for a limited time you or someone you love can join for only $25. In these tough economic times we must all do are part and pull together as Minnesotans and warm the planet this Christmas Season.

By Elmer Beauregard

It's an old Native American belief that you can tell how bad a winter is going to be by the size of the whiteman's wood pile. Well judging by my wood pile its going to be a long cold winter. I have never had a wood pile this big, I must have 10 cord going. The reason its bigger than normal is because this year we added our 6th source of heat, a wood boiler.