I know this has nothing to do with Global Warming, but it has everything to do with Minnesota. Our state is abuzz with the news, so I made a Brett Favre song to the tune of Donavon's "There is a Mountain".
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With each passing day, cap and trade legislation in the United States looks more likely to become a bystander casualty of the political fight over healthcare reform. The country's voter base has become agitated, feeling that too much change is happening at once.
Democrats whose offices are at stake are taking the warning to heart, unsettling the narrow 60-member coalition. One of the most vulnerable points is Senator Blanche Lincoln, an Arkansas Democrat. The New York Times:
Ms. Lincoln, a rice farmer's daughter, has already broken with her party on several important measures. While she voted for the stimulus package and the rescue of the financial system, she opposed the reauthorization of the banking infusion and the carmakers' bailout. She also opposes a Democratic initiative to help workers unionize and the House's cap-and-trade legislation to reduce industrial emissions...
You can have your own opinion, but you can't have your own facts.
Senator John Kerry's statement in early August 2009 about "global warming" before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which he chairs, was false in every particular, leading him to draw the incorrect conclusion that "global warming" was a threat to national security. The Senator got every fact wrong -
Wilkins Ice Shelf: Senator Kerry said the recent cracking of the thin "ice-bridge" linking the Wilkins Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Ice Shelf was caused by "global warming". It was not: there has been no statistically-significant "global warming" for almost 15 years.
Arctic ice-cap: Senator Kerry said the Arctic ice-cap would vanish in summer by 2013 because of "global warming". It will not, and, even if it does, "global warming" will not be the cause: there has been rapid global cooling for very nearly eight years.
Polar bears: Senator Kerry said polar bears were under threat from "global warming". They are not: their population has increased fivefold since the 1940s, and they survived the last interglacial period 125,000 years ago, when there was no summer ice in the Arctic.
Famine and drought: Senator Kerry said "global warming" would bring more famine and drought. It will not: "global warming", if and when it resumes, would cause the space occupied by the atmosphere to hold more water vapor, reducing drought globally.
The now iconic image of murky dust rising from a smokestack in the shape of a hurricane on the cover of Al Gore's global warming documentary draws a distinct correlation between rising temperatures and stronger storm patterns.
But here's an inconvenient truth: This year's hurricane season has gotten off to the slowest start in 17 years. And yet global warming alarmists continue to ring their doomsday sirens.
The official start of the hurricane season is June 1. And not since 1992 -- the year of Hurricane Andrew -- has the Atlantic Ocean been silent past Aug. 4. Meteorologists have yet to name even a single tropical storm in the Atlantic in 2009.
You should never assume anything, especially if you're a scientist. Kent Hovind shoots holes in the idea that ice rings are an annual occurrence. Just because tree rings are annual doesn't mean that ice core rings are.
Telegraph.UK
Ships with giant funnels which travel the world's seas creating more clouds to deflect the sun's rays could help cut global warming, say scientists.
The unmanned ships would be directed by satellite to areas with the best conditions for increasing cloud cover
The "cloud ships" are favoured among a series of schemes aimed at altering the climate which have been weighed up by a leading think-tank.
The project, which is being worked on by rival US and UK scientists, would see 1,900 wind-powered ships ply the oceans sucking up seawater and spraying minuscule droplets of it out through tall funnels to create large white clouds.
These clouds, it is predicted, would reflect around one or two per cent of the sunlight that would otherwise warm the ocean, thereby cancelling out the greenhouse effect caused by Carbon Dioxide emissions.
The unmanned ships would be directed by satellite to areas with the best conditions for increasing cloud cover, mainly in the Pacific and far enough away from land so as not to affect normal rainfall patterns.
M4GW will have a table there and Chciken Little Too.
Join the Minnesota Free Market Institute as we host Dr. Fred Singer, Distinguished Research Professor at George Mason University on the subject of climate "realism."
The talk will be followed by breakout sessions with presentations on Climatology, Energy, Cap and Trade and the economic impact of climate change legislation in Minnesota with local and national commentators and experts.
Here are some of the participants at this date:
John Coleman, Meteorologist, founder of The Weather Channel
Kenneth Green, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
State Senator Mike Jungbauer
Paul C. Knappenberger, Master Resource blog
Carolyn Sampson, Minnesota Rural Electric Association (MREA)
The event will be held August 19th at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Brooklyn Center from 3-7pm including reception.
