Climate Alarmist - 'The Climate's Changing Faster'

I occasionally check in on the musings of a British climate alarmist working in Rothera, Antarctica. Recently, she said (as she always does) that:

“The climate’s changing faster here than just about anywhere on the planet.”

Gee, Tamsin, one little hyperlink to substantiating data might have been nice. Got anything?

Tamsin talks about “taking daily temperature readings.” But, among the Rothera data publicly published by her employers, temperature data are nowhere to be found (wonder why?).

Oh, and…
Before mere mortals can actually SEE the data they DO make available, one must first be approved and, among other things, provide the data overlords “some information about the intended use of the data.” Sounds to me like they REALLY want to keep their data out of the hands of anybody who might not tow the purely political party line (thereby threatening the government funding gravy train).

We do, however, have data from Vostok, Antarctica. The only recent climate change I’ve seen at that location has been a COOLING TREND!

The 2010 annual mean temperature in Vostok was -55.8C. That is 0.2C COOLER than the 2008 line (in green) on the following chart. A line depicting 2010 annual mean temperature would be located at -0.3 on the chart (the reference point being at -55.5C).

Click the image to enlarge it:

Click here for details & to readily verify the data sources.

Click here for some basic climate change science.
Click here to debunk the hysteria topic by topic.

Best Solution to the Debt Crisis

Quoting Steven Nelson
at The Daily Caller:

“Gary Johnson is an unusual politician. Contrarian but constructive, Johnson hopes to move the Republican Party in the direction of being a socially ‘tolerant’ party that emphasizes limited government above all else…

An advocate of fiscal conservatism, Johnson said that he opposes raising the debt ceiling. Many Americans would be hurt immediately by the decision, he said, but it’s far preferable to a future economic calamity caused by the over-printing of money.

The only conceivable way he would support raising the debt ceiling would be along with a balanced budget amendment that would take effect immediately. (RELATED: Gary Johnson has his own plan for balancing budget)”

Click the image & read the rest:

Actually, the best solution to the debt crisis would be to immediately and completely eliminate Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid (along with anything else that so much as smells like government “charity”). That would immediately create a surplus for this year and every year to come and would cut the scope and scale of the federal government by at least 60%. The stock market would soar, the economy would take off like a rocket, unemployment would be a thing of the past, the most generous people in the history of humanity (Americans) would take care of those truly in need FAR better than a pack of worthless and utterly corrupt federal bureaucrats. We would ALL be MUCH better off (immediately AND in the long term).

Well, okay…
The mafia would suffer. But, that’s a good thing. Yes, and, a large cadre of grossly over-paid, counter-productive bureaucrats in Washington D.C. would suffer (until such time as they found something MUCH more productive to do with their lives). But, that too is a good thing.

Alternatively, John Stossel has his own detailed and quantified plan whereby an immediate surplus could be easily achieved. The best idea would be to combine his plan with mine.

For those who labor under the Democrat created delusion that eliminating Medicare would leave granny starving in the streets without any health care -- click here and get a dose of reality.

For those who labor under the Democrat created fantasy that they are not to blame for the MASSIVELY accelerated increase in our national debt, click here and get a dose of reality.

Finally, if you want the gay marriage issue to go away, simply eliminate the discriminatory financial advantages currently provided to married couples. The gay marriage issue (like virtually every other issue) is ALL about money! Get government the HELL out of marriage! Click here to expand upon my views on government and marriage.

NO NEW DEBT CEILING!
NOT NOW, NOT EVER!

Holy Grail of Climate Change - Advantage, Skeptics

Quoting a previous post directly related to today’s post:

“Every climate scientist will freely admit that CO2 alone would NEVER have enough warming effect to whip up any concerns AT ALL! The linchpin of Catastrophic Man Made Global Warming hysteria has always been the question of how water vapor responds to the tiny amount of warming caused by CO2. Every IPCC computer model blindly assumes a positive water vapor feedback mechanism which creates catastrophic warming (even though CO2 levels 22 times higher than today failed to create any such ‘tipping point’ of runaway global warming).”

That post went on to cite peer reviewed science demonstrating that the alarmist assumptions regarding the holy grail of climate change (the water vapor response) were not merely wrong but entirely upside down.

As expected, the alarmists fought back and attempted to discredit the evidence.

Well, we now have MORE peer-reviewed science which discredits the alarmist attempt to discredit the original science. With this, it is tempting to declare (as others previously have) game, set, match. But, it may be more appropriate to declare this “advantage, skeptics” (BIG TIME). The mythology of this Holy Grail of climate science may not yet have been completely shattered (especially in the eyes of the “true believers”). But, it is teetering badly and very, very close to completely falling in the eyes of all but the very most rabid, corrupt, purely political, money grubbing fanatics.

Quoting James Taylor
at Forbes.com:

“NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior studies indicating increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed.”

Click the image & read the rest:

Click here or here for the peer reviewed science cited by Forbes.
Click here for Dr. Spencer’s comments on this science.

Click here for all my posts on water vapor feedback.
Click here for some basic climate change science.
Click here to debunk the hysteria topic by topic.

NewsBusted Video - 7/26/11

NewsBusted Comedy Show From 7/26/11:

Click here to view more NewsBusted comedy.

Dedicated to those who fight evil

Dedicated to Sam & Dean
and all those who fight evil in this world:

Disclaimer aimed at the willfully ignorant (aka Democrats):
I present the fantasy world warfare portrayed in this video as
MERELY A METAPHOR for a PEACEABLE political battle
(against the greatest evil this country has EVER faced).

Time - Fight Climate Change via a Different Set of Lies

Bryan Walsh, writing for the ever laughable Time Magazine, proposes a different set of lies through which to fight Climate Change. What follows are quotes from his propaganda followed by the substantiated evidence refuting the false assertions:

1) “Climate change advocates haven't had much to celebrate recently”

A) Who are these “advocates” FOR climate change? Send this clown back to grade school!

B) The climate hysteria mongers must be at least marginally happy that the tyrants purporting to govern Australia are imposing a Carbon Tax (after getting elected on a pledge NOT to do so).

C) The climate tyrants must be absolutely ecstatic over the abject tyranny imposed by the unelected and unaccountable EPA bureaucrats. Click here for more on EPA tyranny.

2) “He [Michael Bloomberg] saw coal pollution first and foremost as a public health issue, one that is directly hurting Americans through higher rates of asthma and heart disease.”

The EPA reports that coal related pollutants are all below national standards and are all dropping like a rock. So, are these two clowns suggesting that FEWER pollutants are causing MORE health problems? Yeah, that’s a typical argument from eco-nuts.

3) “Over the past several years… the scientific case on manmade climate change has gotten stronger”

REALLY? What alternative universe do you live in?

A) Click here and examine dozens of examples documenting the utter, total and complete meltdown of the last shreds of any phony credibility the IPCC ever pretended to have.

B) Click here and see how the AMO killed the CAGW cult.

4) “See photos of giant vanishing ice.”

Click here and here and here to debunk ice melt hysteria.

5) “Nationally and internationally, climate politics are deadlocked, even as carbon emissions keep rising and the most of the U.S. sweats through a summer that feels like a trailer for global warming to come.”

A) NYC (the author’s home) may be experiencing a hot summer. But, NOAA reports that about half of the nation is experiencing a cooler than average summer.

Click here for the source of the previous link.

B) Click here and put the latest USA NOAA data for this summer into perspective against the last 25 years.

C) AGW theory posits that AGW is most evident in warmer WINTERS (not warmer summers). Click here and examine the severe USA winter cooling trend.

These are just some of the most obvious and glaring inaccuracies in this pathetic propaganda piece.

It is WAY past time that governments STOP:
Pretending they can micromanage climate change.
Centrally planning the energy sector (to the detriment of ALL).

Click here for some basic climate change science.
Click here to debunk the hysteria topic by topic.

AP Misreports the 'Boiling Point'

Quoting The Associated Press:

“The extreme heat that's been roasting the eastern U.S. is only expected to get worse, and residents are bracing themselves for temperatures near and above boiling point.”

Click the image & read the rest:

Those who did NOT sleep through grade school science lessons may
recall the boiling point (of water, at a pressure of 1 atmosphere) is 212F.
Click here for the screen shot (in case AP corrects their blunder).
Click here & examine the current USA cooling trend.

Obama forces you to pay for the politics of race

Quoting The Daily Caller:

“The National Council of La Raza, an advocacy group that frames nearly every national policy debate as a Latino issue, will hear a speech from President Obama today, as the president delivers his latest sales pitch to Hispanics. La Raza regularly mirrors the White House message on a range of topics, and a careful look at the nation’s largest Hispanic advocacy organization reveals a high level of messaging coordination with the White House.

Cecilia Muñoz has served as the Obama administration’s director of intergovernmental affairs from the very beginning. Muñoz was previously La Raza’s senior vice president in charge of research, advocacy and legislation.

Her tenure at the White House has coincided with a sharp increase in federal funding for La Raza, according to a recent Judicial Watch investigation. This flow of funds has only solidified the group’s advocacy for liberal policies that solidify the Obama administration’s position among a key constituency of Hispanics.”

Click the image & read the rest:

La Raza is Spanish for “The Race”.
Click here and translate it for yourself.
So, Obama is forcing taxpayers to support “a sharp increase in federal funding for” a group of Hispanics organized under the name “The Race”.

Silly me! I thought this President was all about moving beyond the politics of race. Turns out, he was just another Cultural Marxist who, just like his minions at MSNBC (and beyond), frames EVERYTHING around racial (and cultural) identity. Yeah, okay, I knew that from the get-go. Did you?

Obama consigned to a spectator's role (as usual)

Quoting Forbes:

“The White House was largely consigned to a spectator's role on a weekend that began with Boehner's decision to call off talks with President Barack Obama. Asked what the administration's plan was to avoid default, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said, ‘Our plan is to get Congress to raise the debt ceiling on time.’”

Click the image & read the rest:

Click here to enlarge the image.
Click here & examine Obama’s ONLY “leadership” role.
Click here for a pithy analysis of this Dim debacle.

Cavuto - Tea Party Isn't Causing the Debt Crisis

Dishonest Dims blame the TEA Party for a crisis they created.
Neil Cavuto throws some cold water (aka facts) on their lies:

Click here & examine decades of Dim spending.
Click here for the solution - Cut, Cap & Balance.

NewsBusted Video - 7/15/11

NewsBusted Comedy Show From 7/15/11:

Click here for more on Obama’s EPIC failure (jobs).
Click here to view more NewsBusted comedy.

Dims Dictate Light Bulbs & Kill MORE Jobs

Quoting The Kansas City Star (7/12/11):

“It looks like lights out for old-fashioned incandescent bulbs.

The Republican-controlled House voted 233-193 on Tuesday for the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act, which would have repealed higher energy-efficiency standards for bulbs. But the measure needed a two-thirds majority to pass.

House Republicans can still try to adopt the measure under different procedures requiring only a simple majority, but it’s unlikely it would get through the Democratic-controlled Senate.”

Quoting The Washington Post (9/8/2010):

“The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month…

The remaining 200 workers at the plant here will lose their jobs…

What made the plant here vulnerable is, in part, a 2007 energy conservation measure passed by Congress that set standards essentially banning ordinary incandescents by 2014….

Rather than setting off a boom in the U.S. manufacture of replacement lights, the leading replacement lights are compact fluorescents, or CFLs, which are made almost entirely overseas, mostly in China…

none of the major brands make CFLs in the United States.”

Nice work, Dims!
Are you freaking morons TRYING to kill USA jobs?

NewsBusted Video - 7/12/11

NewsBusted Comedy Show From 7/12/11:

Click here for more on Obama’s EPIC failure (jobs).
Click here for more on the Casey Anthony debacle.
Click here to view more NewsBusted comedy.

Barack Hussein Obama - Scaremongering Scumbag

Quoting the Dim propagandists at CBS “News”:

“President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks.”

Quoting CNS News:

“However, according to the Daily Treasury Statements published by the U.S. Treasury Department, the ongoing flow of federal tax revenue since the Treasury declared that it had hit the debt limit on May 16 has been more than sufficient to cover the combined costs of federal spending on interest payments, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the Veterans Affairs department and federal workers wages and insurance benefits (including wages and insurance benefits for military personnel).”

WSJ paraphrased Obama’s tactics this way:
“Raise Taxes or Granny Gets It”
Click the image & read the WSJ analysis:

Raising taxes will NOT increase revenues!
It’s just an effort to pander to ignorant class hatred.
We have a SPENDING problem, NOT a revenue problem!
ENOUGH ALREADY! NO NEW DEBT CEILING!

Susan Feinberg - Barking Moonbat of the Year

Susan Feinberg is the delusional sanctimonious barking moonbat who verbally assaulted Congressman Paul Ryan while he was having dinner.

Ms. Moonbat apparently hates Ryan for having the temerity to attempt to save our nation from unsustainable entitlement fantasies.

Having been outted for making utterly unsubstantiated and demonstrably false assumptions as to the nature of what she thought she saw, one would expect a sane person to apologize and back down. Yeah, barking moonbats never do. This pinhead has doubled down. She has taken delusional self-righteous sanctimony to a whole new level.

Click the image of Ms. Feinberg
& further expose her rabid moonbat delusions:

The rabid hypocrisy does NOT end there!
Ms. Moonbat collects a taxpayer subsidized salary of $160,417!
For many, her salary puts a college education out of reach.

Marxist Propaganda in Pop Culture

Marxist propaganda in pop culture? Where do I start? The examples are endless (then and now). Let’s look at just one of the more literate examples - Pirate Jenny from The Threepenny Opera.

The Threepenny Opera, which is said to have offered “a Marxist critique of the capitalist world”, was written by Bertolt Brecht -- a lifelong Marxist. Two songs from The Threepenny Opera prominently found their way into pop culture - Mack the Knife and Pirate Jenny.

Judy Collins took some liberties with the original “Pirate Jenny” and produced an artistically compelling pop song depicting what Marx described as an economic class struggle. The person who uploaded the video below also produced some visually compelling companion illustrations. Marxist propaganda often comes wrapped in an entertaining (and/or self-righteous) package.

I just wonder…
How many hippies listening to the Judy Collins cover of Pirate Jenny in 1966 knew they were being seduced by Marxist propaganda? Not many (if any). They simply soaked up the Marxist view of the world without ever understanding the ideology they were unconsciously embracing.

But, Judy Collins -- who idolized the murdering Communist bastard Che Guevara -- almost certainly knew she was pimping for the Communist cause.

Judy Collins performs
Pirate Jenny:

Click here for the original version.
The very same process described in this post happens every day to anybody exposed to our “educational” system, our “entertainment” industry or our “news” industry. These are the three primary vectors for the dissemination of propaganda. All three vectors are almost completely controlled by the American Left.

Math & Logic Challenged Moonbat Attacks Paul Ryan

Math, logic & fact challenged moonbat associate professor Susan Feinberg was outraged that Paul Ryan’s table spent $700 (of their own money) on wine. Ms. Moonbat -- always eager to play the class warfare card -- somehow found that private expenditure relevant to Paul Ryan’s plan to prevent federal spending on utterly unsustainable entitlements from bankrupting the entire nation.

According to the Washington Examiner, Ms. Moonbat (in her own grammatically incorrect words) said she “quickly figured out that those two bottles of wine was more [sic] than two-income working family making minimum wage earned in a week.”

Well, Ms. Moonbat…

1) What the HELL do private expenditures have to do with public expenditures?

Contrary to Ms. Moonbat’s utterly fictional assumptions, Ryan was NOT dining with lobbyists, produced a receipt proving he paid for his own meal, bought one of the two bottles of wine and consumed only one glass of that wine. WTF is your problem with THAT, Ms. Moonbat?

2) You want some “envelope calculations”? Try these:

A) You would have to purchase 2.3 BILLION bottles of that wine (at taxpayer expense) to equal the amount spent on Medicare & Medicaid in 2010.

B) History shows that no matter HOW much you steal from the most productive of our citizens, you will NOT generate more revenues!

C) By 2049, federal entitlements will consume ALL federal tax revenues. Just last year, that date was calculated to be 2052. The crisis is looming larger every year. Yet, you and your ilk want to do NOTHING!

Ms. Moonbat:
Considering that you cannot even construct a grammatically correct sentence, I want to know how YOU justify YOUR $160,417.00 taxpayer subsidized salary at “The State University of New Jersey”. Ms. Moonbat, you don’t deserve one damn PENNY of that OUTRAGEOUS salary!

Click here to learn more.

Going Green Will Cost $76 Trillion

Quoting Fox News:

“Two years ago, U.N. researchers were claiming that it would cost ‘as much as $600 billion a year over the next decade’ to go green. Now, a new U.N. report has more than tripled that number to $1.9 trillion per year for 40 years.

So let's do the math: That works out to a grand total of $76 trillion, over 40 years -- or more than five times the entire Gross Domestic Product of the United States ($14.66 trillion a year).”

Click the image & read the rest:

Click here for the entire report calling for “global governance”.

The real cost will be at least an order of magnitude higher.
And, just like Kyoto, will have NO IMPACT on the climate!

It is high time the USA STOPPED funding the United Nations!

Will Light Bulb Liberties be Restored?

Quoting Caroline May
at The Daily Caller
(I inserted the link):

“Monday, the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 2417, the Better Use of Light Bulbs (BULB) Act, a bill to repeal the federal ban on the incandescent light bulb”

Click the image & read the rest:

Getting Away With Murder, Part II

Quoting Susan Estrich
(a Liberal, Feminist Law Professor):

“Casey Anthony killed her daughter….

I have absolutely no doubt that she was responsible for her daughter's death…

[Susan then notes the harsh sentence given to O.J. Simpson when he was finally convicted (of theft)]

if I were Casey Anthony (and to be honest, she is one woman I can't even imagine being), I'd watch my step from here on, very, very carefully. She may have gotten away with murder, but she won't get away the next time.

Justice may not be blind, and sometimes it seems to be deaf and dumb, but rough justice can be very rough on those who get away with murder.”

Click the image & read the rest:

1) I’ll forgive Susan for stealing my headline.
2) Casey will continue her life of crime.
3) Justice WILL catch up with Casey.
4) I think Casey will kill again.

I would advise her parents to relocate
& never tell Casey where to find them.

June 2011 Update - Current USA Cooling Trend

1) This post deals with USA temperatures.
2) Click here to address global temperature trends.
3) Click here to reproduce each NOAA graph below.
4) Note the warming bias (about 30%) in NOAA data.

25 Year USA Trend for June.
A warming of 0.06F per decade?
OMG! Is it time to panic yet?
With the 30% warming bias, this is actually a cooling trend.
Click the image to enlarge it:

25 Year YTD USA Cooling Trend.
Click the image to enlarge it:

Please! Tell me again who thinks it is a good idea to utterly waste $76 TRILLION in order to pretend we can micromanage climate change. Kyoto has already PROVEN that we can waste all the money we want and we will not even come CLOSE to changing the global temperature in any way which could even be measured.

Furthermore, history tells us that the estimate of $76 TRILLION would balloon into at LEAST a full order of magnitude above that figure.

Click here for some basic climate change science.
Click here to debunk the hysteria topic by topic.

Obama's Epic Failure - June Jobs Edition

Quoting The Bureau of Labor Statistics:

“The number of unemployed persons (14.1 million) and the unemployment rate (9.2 percent) were essentially unchanged over the month (of June).”

That’s government speak for:
Unemployment ROSE from 9.1% to 9.2%
That’s THREE consecutive months of RISING unemployment!

Click the image & read the rest:

Click here and recall Obama’s empty promises.
Obama promised unemployment would now be below 7%.
His own data prove he has made matters MUCH WORSE!
Click here and know why that was entirely predictable.

Hey! Dims! How’s that hopey changey thing working for you?
MORONS!

Don't Walk Away on Shakey Ground

Tonight, we get an entertainment double header.
I call it Don’t Walk Away on Shakey Ground.
It features The Temptations & Toni Childs.

The Temptations - Shakey Ground:


Toni Childs - Don’t Walk Away:

Tuesday Music Break - L.A. Woman

“I see your hair is burning - hills are filled with fire.
If they say I never loved you, you know they are a liar”

I could do without the Mr. Mojo risin’ riff.
And, Jim Morrison was nobody’s role model.
But, this is one heck of an iconic song.
For better or for worse, it captured a moment in time.

Getting Away With Murder

Quoting The Baltimore Sun:

“Jury finds Casey Anthony not guilty of murder, manslaughter, aggravated child abuse; guilty of providing false information to law enforcement.”

In my (educated layperson) opinion, Casey Anthony is a psychopath who premeditated the murder of her daughter and got away it.

If you doubt this conclusion, click here and watch six segments titled “Casey Anthony Trial: State's Rebuttal”.

In my mind, the only remaining question is -- will she kill again? I think she will.

DAMN IT!

Walking into Mordor - America's ONLY hope

The American Left long ago appropriated the three primary vectors for the dissemination of propaganda - the “education” system, the “entertainment” industry and the “news” industry. I submit that Mordor is comprised of all three (not just Hollyweird). The ONLY hope for America (and the rest of Western Civilization) is to walk into Mordor and take it back. Frankly, I don’t think the effort will succeed. But, that’s no reason not to try.

The video embedded in this post is the best 10 minute distillation of the root problem faced by the USA and the rest of Western Civilization. The politicians are NOT the problem, the PEOPLE ARE! More to the point, the problem is that the people throughout all of Western Civilization are -- by FAR -- the most heavily indoctrinated people in the entire history of the world. They inhabit a fantasy world (created by Mordor) where Socialism succeeds and Capitalism fails, where good is evil and evil is good, where endless entitlements are “deserved” and sustainable.

Destroying that fantasy world is the ONLY hope for the USA and the rest of Western Civilization. Fail in that mission and all of Western Civilization will completely collapse under the weight of that fantasy within the next 20 years or less.

Walking into Mordor:

Click here for more on the Frankfurt school.
Click here & examine the entitlement time bomb.

Sunday Music Break - Under Pressure

“It’s the terror of knowing what this world is about.”
“This is our last dance.”

Western Civilization had a good run.
But, it cannot survive the age of entitlement.