This report is simply another attempt by the radical Left to obscure the vital programs sponsored by the Bush Administration to combat climate change and improve overall air quality, water quality and cut industrial polution. It is no doubt full of half-truths, phoney science and Satan-induced lies. I can't wait until Tony Snow cuts it to pieces.
Posted by T2 at July 27, 2007 11:11 AMSnow in La Paz for the first time in twenty years. Another downward revision to the expected hurricane season. That makes two in a row when the global alarmist said we're in for more "Katrina's" each and every year. Coldest June in Australian History. Coolest temps for tennis on the grass in England. Seems the consensus is more for cooling than warming. Water temps seem to be cooling because solar activity seems to be calming. Another hurricane season of little to no activity. Gee, I hear Florida would like a few tropical storms to replenish the water supplies in the lakes. First time in a decade, the drought in Texas has been broken. Seems, the inconvenient truth isn't too inconvenient any more. And not truth at all.
Posted by peter at July 27, 2007 12:47 PMIf you have any doubts, look at the latest SOHO picture of the Sun released by NASA.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=470726&in_page_id=1965
Look ma, no spots!
Posted by peter at July 27, 2007 01:19 PMpeter, you are a complete idiot. I hope you can't reproduce.
Posted by tempus at July 27, 2007 01:34 PMKid's and grandkids
Posted by peter at July 27, 2007 01:50 PMDamn shame...
Posted by tempus at July 27, 2007 02:03 PMGlorious!
Posted by peter at July 27, 2007 02:11 PMThen we can only hope they are not as stupid as you are. Hopefully, your wife's genes dominate.
Posted by tempus at July 27, 2007 02:15 PMFunny, all my kids grade in the top 5% and are all Republicans.
Posted by peter at July 27, 2007 02:31 PMOf what, grade one? And if they are truly Repugs, I doubt it was even that.
Posted by tempus at July 27, 2007 02:39 PMBritish Antarctic Survey (BAS) astrophysicist, Mark Clilverd says, "the effect of solar activity on Earth's environmental system will not increase in the way it has during the last century. We should take this into account when trying to understand the impact of human activity on our climate system."
As leading economist David Henderson has pointed out, it is extremely dangerous for an unelected and unaccountable body like the IPCC to have a monopoly on climate policy advice to governments. And even more so because, at heart, the IPCC is a political and not a scientific agency.
Australia does not ask the World Bank to set its annual budget and neither should it allow the notoriously alarmist IPCC to set its climate policy.
R. Timothy Patterson is professor and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University. Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth. Beginning to plan for adaptation to such a cool period, one which may continue well beyond one 11-year cycle, as did the Little Ice Age, should be a priority for governments. It is global cooling, not warming, that is the major climate threat to the world, especially Canada. As a country at the northern limit to agriculture in the world, it would take very little cooling to destroy much of our food crops, while a warming would only require that we adopt farming techniques practiced to the south of us.
Meantime, we need to continue research into this, the most complex field of science ever tackled, and immediately halt wasted expenditures on the King Canute-like task of "stopping climate change."
Posted by peter at July 27, 2007 02:56 PMAustralia does not ask the World Bank to set its annual budget and neither should it allow the notoriously alarmist IPCC to set its climate policy.
My sister has lived in Brisbane, Australia, for the past 16 years. She has told me repeatedly that the environment is completely out of control. You right-wing idiots just don't care, do you? Your grandchildren might.
Posted by tempus at July 27, 2007 03:20 PMI'll write a post about the idea that changes in solar activity are responsible for global warming as soon as I can. In the meantime, yet another paper was published this month, this time using satellite observations of the sun, finding no simple correlation between solar activity and global warming (Lockwood and Frolich in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, pdf of the paper). Lockwood's specialty is solar-terrestrial physics.
FWIW, the Royal Society has created a nice online guide to global warming "controversies."
Posted by Christina at July 27, 2007 05:45 PMSnow in La Paz for the first time in twenty years.
A perfect example of how Peter is completely clueless as to the mechanisms of AGW.
Posted by Simp at July 27, 2007 06:14 PMpeter, you are a complete idiot. I hope you can't reproduce.
Posted by tempus at July 27, 2007 01:34 PM
You did not effectively answer Peter, except for your juvenile comment. Can you?
Posted by jj at July 27, 2007 07:34 PMThen we can only hope they are not as stupid as you are. Hopefully, your wife's genes dominate.
Posted by tempus at July 27, 2007 02:15 PM
You certainly do not communicate very intelligently. Can you?
Try me, jj. And obviously you don't know anything about HTML, but that doesn't surprise me.
Posted by tempus at July 27, 2007 08:51 PMP.S. jj:
You trolls are mentally deficient. And don't irritate me.
Posted by tempus at July 27, 2007 09:03 PMPeter has completely befuddled you, but that is not surprising.
Posted by jj at July 28, 2007 07:24 AMPeter has completely befuddled you, but that is not surprising.
No he hasn't. His comments are not worth responding to.
He is practicing the same type of "debunking" that George Taylor, Crichton and others practice. They cherry pick data points that support their pre-conceived conclusions. It is a waste of most people's time to respond to this type of silliness.
Please, go spend some time at RealClimate and get educated on the issue. Feel free to look up the places/people that Peter is speaking of there. You'll find plenty of the details that you are looking for.
Posted by Simp at July 28, 2007 08:30 AMPlease, go spend some time at RealClimate
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Which by the way bebunks about as much about "global warming' as it advances.