Heliogenic Climate Change

The U.S. is the bad guy, right? Planet Gore

Planet Gore: “Not evil, just wrong“

What a sad state of affairs. Science is suffering the repression of a new Inquisition:

“I HEAR on the scientific grapevine that CSIRO’s biggest problem when providing formal advice to the federal Government on the matter of climate change is to say nothing that can be interpreted as giving aid and comfort to the army of irresponsible sceptics out there who are doubtful about the dreadful consequences of global warming.

One can only feel sorry for the Government. Where can it go these days to get unbiased advice on the issue of global warming? Its official sources are poisoned by the fear among many scientists that they may be labelled by their colleagues and by their institutions as climate-change sceptics.” “Advice is poisoned by fear“

“According to the UAH data For 2008, we are averaging about .4 to .5 degrees C cooler than last year.” “UAH satellite data: Globally, 2008 significantly cooler than last year“

“Lord Turner’s comments underline the growing conflict between environmental policies – which rely on increasing the cost of energy to encourage people to cut their emissions – and the government’s need to respond to widespread concerns over the effects of high energy prices. The timing of Lord Turner’s intervention could hardly be worse for Mr Brown. As Labour on Friday suffered its worst poll rating since records began in 1943, the prime minister remained under intense pressure over his handling of the fuel crisis.” “FSA chief heats fuel taxes debate“

“These climatic changes were accompanied with the reduction of cloudiness which was in correlation with the reduction of cosmic rays (neutrons) especially strong within the 22nd sunspot period. Sun observations of NASA showed since this time stronger increase of eruptions of protons transporting solar winds, which were reducing cosmic radiation by magnetic deflections. This effect caused reductions of cloudiness partly till about 30 %. Therefore this “Climate Jump” with its increasing ground near temperature, causing the above mentioned changes, is sun made. Moreover the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) showed correlations with neutron flux, which stables the assumption, that there is a causal connection between sunspot controlled cosmic rays and cloudiness: Correlations between these components give a causal chain which leads to the knowledge, that increasing sun activity causes the increase of yearly averages of ground near temperature and as a consequence also the observed prolongation of the growing season in Central Europe.” “Climate Change in Central Europe in Correlation with Changes of Sun Activities“

“Events in Crewe and Nantwich illustrate the difficulties of politicians intent on doing anything, such as carbon-taxing to avert catastrophe since a) no one really believes it’s coming, b) they’ll be dead anyway, c) the recession has left them much too fearful and poor to care, and d) they won’t vote for anyone who tries to make them.” “Green politics, like all fashions, has proved sadly transient“

“Prime Minster Stephen Harper will aim to persuade several European counterparts next week to press developing nations such as China and India to take more significant roles in reducing greenhouse gases when the Kyoto accord expires. … “The Prime Minister will speak about the need for a truly global approach to a global challenge of climate change,” an official said. “This means if you really want to have an impact on dealing with climate change, you can’t have major economies and emitters like India and China and others outside the process. Everybody’s got to be part of the process and do their part.”" “PM wants Europe to press India, China to cut gases“

This is a good strategy to justify Canada’s non-participation in a futile pact to fight the phantom menace. Harper knows China and India will not join in an economy-crippling emissions reduction pact, and their non-participation will provide cover for his.

These two stories were published back-to-back by Reuters:

“Global Biofuel Output To Soar In Next Decade-Report“

“Food Prices To Stay High, “Grain Drain” Fuel Blamed“

This ought to help the world food crisis, eh?:

“OTTAWA – Government legislation that will require all gasoline sold in Canada to contain 5 percent ethanol by 2010 passed the House of Commons on Wednesday.” “Canada House Gives Green Light To Biofuel Bill“

Labour MPs want the government to monitor your lifestyle and penalize you if you’re not carbonically correct:

“Britain Needs Personal Carbon Trading Scheme-MPs“

being debated in the Senate:

“The chief political virtue of cap-and-trade — a complex scheme to reduce greenhouse gases — is its complexity. This allows its environmental supporters to shape public perceptions in essentially deceptive ways.

Cap-and-trade would act as a tax, but it’s not described as a tax. It would regulate economic activity, but it’s promoted as a “free market” mechanism.

Finally, it would trigger a tidal wave of influence-peddling, as lobbyists scrambled to exploit the system for different industries and localities. This would undermine whatever the system’s abstract advantages.” “Cap-And-Trade = Cap-And-Tax“

doggedly continues his quixotic quest, still prattling on about revolutions and tipping points:

“This Sunday evening (June 1) I will give a talk at Cary Hall in Lexington, Massachusetts a few hundred yards from where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired. Perhaps there is an analogy between the gap that developed between the best interests of the American people and policies of despotic King George and the gap that has developed between the best interests of the public (and nature) and the policies (mainly those related to energy) that we now live under.

A different sort of revolution, within the democratic framework, is needed, but it won’t be easy. What makes it a hair-raising drama, with an outcome far from assured, is the combination of climate system inertia and resulting planetary energy imbalance, energy system inertia, and climate system tipping points.” (From his email newsletter May 29.)

Joseph D’Aleo: “Correlation of Carbon Dioxide with Temperatures Negative Again“

An excellent primer by Joseph D’Aleo on solar cycles, cosmic ray modulation, clouds, and correlation of cycle length with global temperature:

“The sun undergoes cyclical changes on multiple time scales that appear to correlate very well with temperatures. Long and relatively quiet solar cycles historically have been associated with cold global temperatures, short and very active cycles, warm periods. The current cycle 23 appears to be the longest in at least a century and may project to quieter subsequent cycles and cooling temperatures ahead.” “Ultralong Solar Cycle 23 and Possible Consequences“

Joseph D’Aleo: “Warmists in Frantic Effort to Save their Failing Theory“

“WASHINGTON – Carbon dioxide spewed by human activities has made ocean water so acidic that it is eating away at the shells and skeletons of starfish, coral, clams and other sea creatures, scientists said on Thursday.” “Human Carbon Emissions Make Oceans Corrosive – Study“

CO2 is at it’s lowest level in 600 million years. Human carbon emissions are dwarfed by natural processes.

“We discussed this before and no, it’s not really right. See, for example, CO₂ levels in the Ordovician — 4,000-4,500ppmv. The Ordovician period was an era of extensive diversification and expansion of numerous marine clades. Although organisms also present in the Cambrian were numerous in the Ordovician, a variety of new types including cephalopods, corals (including rugose and tabulate forms), bryozoans, crinoids, graptolites, gastropods, and bivalves flourished. Ordovican communities typically displayed a higher ecological complexity than Cambrian communities due to the greater diversity of organisms.

Now, if 4,500ppmv CO₂ could not make seas acidic enough to trouble calcium-depositing critters like these what reason have we to worry at 1/10th such levels?” From Junk Science archive, May 22, 2008.

“Congressional ignorance of basic laws of supply and demand is at once bizarre, breathtaking and frightening. For example, the American Thinker Web site this week took note of a speech delivered by New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer on May 13. In it, he urged the U.S. to force Saudi Arabia to pump a million barrels a day more of oil — which Schumer claimed would slash the price of crude by $25 a barrel.

What Schumer didn’t say was that 1 million barrels is exactly the amount of extra oil the U.S. would today be pumping if President Clinton hadn’t vetoed drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 1995. Despite this, Schumer still opposes drilling in ANWR.” “Blame Washington, Not Oil Companies“

First they threw out red/green Ken Livingstone in London, now they’ve thrown out the Crewe Labour MP. The issue is Labour’s green taxes which are estimated to cost every family in Britain more than £3,000 and accomplish nothing other than enriching government coffers £7billion by the end of the tax year. “Brown facing meltdown as Labour crash in Crewe“

Politicians understand only one thing, votes. When the message that the public doesn’t want green taxes is heard by the politicians the greens are in trouble. And not just in Britain.

“Northern BC municipalities threaten to withhold carbon tax money“