April 2008 Archives

by David Kestenbaum, npr.org

Morning Edition, April 15, 2008 · If you're a scientist trying to convince people they are making the world warmer, Kristen Byrnes is your worst nightmare. She's articulate, intelligent, she has a Web site, and one day her people will be running the world. Her people, meaning 16-year-olds.

Kristen's Web site, "Ponder the Maunder," has made her a celebrity among climate skeptics. After she posted a critique of Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth, her Web site got so many hits the family's internet service provider sent them a warning.

Her story may dismay mainstream scientists, but plenty of people are friendly to her ideas.

In one poll last year, only about 50 percent of people agreed humans were contributing to global warming. The other half either disagreed, weren't sure or didn't believe the Earth was warming in the first place.

by Richard Morrison, CEI.org

Counter to Gore’s $300M Global Warming Alarmism Project

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is re-launching a national advertising campaign on the threat to affordable energy posed by Al Gore’s global warming agenda. The ad, which begins airing April 4, responds to the ads produced by Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, which start April 2nd.

The Alliance campaign attempts to build support for policies that would restrict energy through higher prices and reduced supplies. CEI’s ad contrasts Gore’s energy-consuming lifestyle with the life-and-death need for energy in developing countries.

By Elmer Beureguard

It's April 26th and Minnesota is getting pelted with yet another late spring snow storm. Some places getting over a foot of snow, Pelican Rapids got 18" and its still snowing. So get yourself off that lawn chair, turn it back into a snow shovel and get to it.

This of course plays right into my Second Law of Global Warming where God reminds us who actually controls the weather. You'd think a storm like this might be used as an argument against Global Warming, but they'll just call it "Climate Change"

FOX News

Sunspot activity has not resumed up after hitting an 11-year low in March last year, raising fears that — far from warming — the globe is about to return to an Ice Age, says an Australian-American scientist.

Physicist Phil Chapman, the first native-born Australian to become an astronaut with NASA [he became an American citizen to join up, though he never went into space], said pictures from the U.S. Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) showed no spots on the sun.

He said the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7 degrees Centigrade.

"This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930," Chapman wrote in The Australian Wednesday. "If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over."

Comments by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

(NaturalNews) It was one of the dumbest "green" ideas ever proposed: Convert millions of acres of cropland into fields for growing ethanol from corn, then burn fossil fuels to harvest the ethanol, expending more energy to extract the fuel than you get from the fuel itself! Meanwhile, sit back and proclaim you've achieved a monumental green victory (President Bush, anyone?) all while unleashing a dangerous spike in global food prices that's causing a ripple effect of food shortages and rationing around the world.

I think politicians need to spend less time bragging about their latest greenwashing schemes and more time studying The Law of Unintended Consequences. Because while growing fuel on cropland initially sounds like a great idea, any honest assessment of the total impact leads you to the inescapable conclusion that biofuels are largely a government-sponsored scam. With a few exceptions (see below), biofuels produce no net increase in energy output, and they cause food shortages while creating strong economic incentives for the destruction of the very rainforests we desperately need to stabilize the climate!

By Elmer Beauregurad

Well it's "Earth Day" and everything is "Green" today, so much so that I want to throw up. So I am going "Blue" instead just to remind people that "nothing would be green without CO2" and we all emit CO2 when we breath, and if we were to stop emititng CO2 we would all turn blue.

By Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily

hysteria - a psychiatric condition variously characterized by emotional excitability, excessive anxiety, sensory and motor disturbances, or the unconscious simulation of organic disorders, such as blindness, deafness, etc.

That's how my dictionary defines hysteria.

It's a good definition - especially insofar as the way I use the word to characterize the pathological obsession with the thoroughly unscientific theory that the world is facing doom and gloom from manmade, catastrophic global warming.

For many of the purveyors of this psychosis, there is little reason to offer up facts to counter their delusions. There can be no debate on this matter, they contend. The hour is too late. Anyone who counters their zealotry has suspect motives and is probably on the payroll of the oil industry.

Ironically, of course, the politician most closely associated with global warming hysteria is Al Gore, whose family fortune was built on Occidental Oil stock. Now he is attempting to expand his fortune through the sale of carbon credits.

Read the rest of this article.

By Elmer Beauregurad

It's April 20th and the ice it not out yet on Lake Minnetonka.

The last time the ice was on the lake this late was 1996, that was the year that it got down to -60º below zero in Tower Minnesota.

It seems like the Global Warming crowd is having a hard time with all the ice we've had this year. Not only here but the South and North Poles have had a lot of ice too. I'm sad to see that Paul Douglas was let go from WCCO. It was fun to watch him squirm every time he had to talk about the record cold winter we're slowly recovering from. Us Minnesotans love to talk about the weather that's for sure, but I never thought it would become a political debate.

Related Article.
Lake Minnetonka prepares for spring.

Elmer Beaureguard

Over 3,000 people braved the bitter temperatures and snow to go to Jason Lewis' Tax Cut Rally at the Minnesota State Capital last Saturday. They came to protest all of the taxes being levied on Minnesotans. Ironically many of the proposed taxes have to do with "Global Warming".

Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet

Inspiration for Al Gore's movie cover, contention that global warming causes intense hurricanes, discredited by professor who first proposed it.

One of the central philosophies of climate change alarmism and an image that adorned the cover of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth - the contention that global warming causes deadly hurricanes - has been completely discredited by the expert who first proposed it.

By Dennis Lien, Pioneer Press

Critics say global warming panel recommendations could increase energy costs,
job losses.

Recent recommendations from Minnesota's global-warming advisory group are unrealistic and too expensive, a collection of lawmakers and business interests charged today.

"Essentially, their proposal is a fantasy,'' said David Strom, president of the Minnesota Free Market Institute, one of several groups hosting a Capitol press conference. "It has no correlation to the trends we see.''

The critics, armed with a study that two of them commissioned, warned that the advisory group's recommendations understate the costs of altering future energy-consumption practices to address global warming. If those recommendations are followed, they projected the state could lose billions of dollars and thousands of jobs and see energy costs rise dramatically.

By Elmer Beaureguard

We've all seen the now famous chart of the increasing CO2, but did you know that it comes from a volcanic mountain in Hawaii called Mauna Loa?

If you've watched "The Great Global Warming Swindle" you know that CO2 for the most part is a natural occurrence. By far the largest conrtibutor of CO2 is the ocean, second is rotting vegetation, third is volcanoes. Well Mauna Loa has all three of these natural producers of CO2 going for it, its on an island in the Pacific its a tropical paradise with lots of vegetation and is a volcanic mountain that has erupted twice since the chart began and is increasing in volcanic activity and could erupt again.

Here is my first attempt at a political cartoon, it looks more like Monty Hall then Al Gore but hopefully I'll get better.