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[Michael Larson]

Al Gore calls for civil disobedience


"I ran into Al Gore at a climate/energy conference this month, and he vibrates with passion about this issue -- recognizing that we should confront mortal threats even when they don't emanate from Al Qaeda.

"We are now treating the Earth's atmosphere as an open sewer," he said, and (perhaps because my teenage son was beside me) he encouraged young people to engage in peaceful protests to block major new carbon sources.

"I can't understand why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers," Mr. Gore said, "and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants.""

[Michael Larson]

Category-Those wacky Hollywood types


Matt Damon dressed as gas pump? Ben Affleck as an ear of corn? No, it’s not “Good Will Hunting,” the sequel. It’s a new set of videos promoting ethanol mandates on the Web site cleanmyride.org.

[Michael Larson]

It's time to decimate the moose popultion to help save the planet!

Norway's Moose Population in Trouble for Belching

The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of methane a year -- equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey.

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Now poor moose are being blamed for global warming.


Norway is concerned that its national animal, the moose, is harming the climate by emitting an estimated 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year through its belching and farting. Norwegian newspapers, citing research from Norway's technical university, said a motorist would have to drive 13,000 kilometers in a car to emit as much CO2 as a moose does in a year.
Bacteria in a moose's stomach create methane gas which is considered even more destructive to the environment than carbon dioxide gas. Cows pose the same problem (more...).
Norway has some 120,000 moose but an estimated 35,000 are expected to be killed in this year's moose hunting season, which starts on September 25, Norwegian newspaper VG reported.

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[Roy D. Cooke, Sr]

August 24, 2007

The truth hurts

Global warming tale looking more like fictional movie than fact

By LICIA CORBELLA
A new apocalyptic movie being filmed, in part, on the T'suu Tina Nation reserve near Calgary claims to be fuelled by science. It's a nice try, but this piece of fiction is fuelled by ... well, fiction.
Agee the actor polar bear will star as the world's last polar bear on Earth in a made-for-TV movie set in the year 2075.
The idea for the film comes from the belief that polar bears are on thin ice -- literally and figuratively -- as a result of man-made global warming.
Terry Marsh, president of Calgary-based Full Frontal Films and this movie's production manager, wrapped up one-month of filming in Calgary and area yesterday and was reached while en route to the airport for Paris, where filming will continue.
"This movie is based on a United Nations report on global warming," says Marsh. "It's a docu-drama -- which is heavy on the drama. It's not a glitzy, Hollywood production about climate change, it's a very serious look at what might actually happen as a result of global warming."
That's curious, says I. I just read some reports by polar bear experts and despite what many global warming alarmists claim, polar bears are not dying and drowning, but surviving and thriving.
"I have no idea about that," says Marsh. "This is only a movie and I'm a film maker, not a scientist."
Good point.
But, will the movie claim to be based on science? The answer to that question, is, infuriatingly, "yes."
In other words, just like the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), who's going to let a few facts get in the way of a good piece of fiction or even a United Nations' report?
Polar bears, in case you haven't noticed yet, are the poster boy -- or is that, poster bear? -- for proponents in the theory of man-made global warming.
Virtually every news clip and certainly most documentaries about global warming shows some beleaguered-looking polar bear perched perilously on a small piece of ice apparently in grave danger of drowning.
Here's some more shocking news. Polar bears can swim!
Last spring, Dr. Mitchell Taylor, a wildlife biologist with the Government of Nunavut's Department of Environment presented a 12-page report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which was endeavouring to determine whether it should declare the polar bear "threatened" under its Endangered Species Act.
Taylor's report showed that of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada's north -- all but two are increasing or remaining stable.
According to a Nunavut Department of Environment spokesman, Taylor is "out in the field tagging polar bears" in the 140,000 sq.-km Davis Strait area.
Taylor has reported that in the mid-1980s there were just 850 bears in Davis Strait, whereas earlier this year there were 2,100. The worldwide numbers are way up too.
As he said at the time: "Scientific knowledge has demonstrated that Inuit knowledge was right. There aren't just a few more bears, there are a hell of a lot more bears."
An inconvenient truth for the prophets of global warming doom, to be sure, but nothing that will stop them from needlessly alarming children about disappearing polar bears.
NOT WARMING
Then, of course, comes the latest embarrassing fact that won't stand in the way of this latest apocalyptic "docu-drama" or even the next IPCC report: The Earth isn't actually warming up the way the United Nations has claimed.
NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies had to back down from its previous claim that 1998 was the U.S.'s hottest year on record. That distinction now goes to 1934.
Indeed, four of the hottest years on record are in the 1930s and polar bears survived just fine.
As Taylor states in that report he made to the U.S. officials, "Polar bears have persisted through many similar climate cycles."
Good news, right? So why will the doomsdayers hate it?

[Michael Larson]

"IPCC Member: NASA’s Hansen Moving 'Dangerously Away From Scientific Discourse to Advocacy'" - "NASA's James Hansen, whose work is continually exposed as shoddy while he refuses to share data gathering techniques and computer codes used for such things with others, has been criticized by a contributing scientist to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as moving "dangerously away from scientific discourse to advocacy."

[klott]

i figured out what is happening with the global warming issue, the enviromentalist have been set up by their own fears and beliefs, and I think it is funny. I believe the current crisis is being pushed by the governments of the world, in order to gather support for alternative energy sources. We already have a good source that does not use near as much as it produces, but it has been fought tooth and nail. Nuclear Power The biggest problem we have is how to dispose of it, I think they could and should send it into the Sun where it will do no harm. Opponents say this is not a safe choice, that something can happen if the rockets should not make it out of the atmosphere, I have seen numerous programs on how they transport nuclear waste now. They have developed bomb, fire, crash proof cylinders that would withstand reentry. Yep, I think we are being duped and that's O.K. with me.

[klott]

Roy back when the craze was save the elephants, I worked for UGA, we had teams that went over to Africa to sterilize Elephants because they were overpopulated. Go figure!

[Michael Larson]

When the "greenies" come out and actively support increased Nuclear Energy to "save the world" then I will believe they are truly concerned with saving us from global climate change.
Until then they are only seeking a means to control all of us through increased taxation to fund their fruitless junk science projects.

[George A. H. Luck]

"Until then they are only seeking a means to control all of us through increased taxation"

Perhaps the most accurate statement yet. Creeping socialism at it's worst.

[Roy D. Cooke, Sr]

Originally Posted by klott

Roy back when the craze was save the elephants, I worked for UGA, we had teams that went over to Africa to sterilize Elephants because they were overpopulated. Go figure!

and now it is people that are overpopulating the world.
This should be our biggest concern.

Do not fear in time mother nature will too bring that under control.

........... Cookie

[Michael Larson]

Roy(and others) read THIS and see if you still think th earth is overpopulated.

"In arguing their case, believers in overpopulation make vague, tautological references to a standard known as "carrying capacity," colorfully illustrated with stories about gazelle herds and bacteria (anything but human beings). When the verbiage is cleared away, what are adduced as the symptoms of overpopulation? Famine, deepening poverty, disease, environmental degradation and resource depletion. Yet on no count does the evidence support the antipopulation lobby's case."

To me it just sounds like another issue to control us. ML

[Michael Larson]

Category: What Consensus?

"Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit endorsement of the consensus. If one considers "implicit" endorsement (accepting the consensus without explicit statement), the figure rises to 45%. However, while only 32 papers (6%) reject the consensus outright, the largest category (48%) are neutral papers, refusing to either accept or reject the hypothesis. This is no "consensus."....

In fact of all papers published in this period (2004 to February 2007), only a single one makes any reference to climate change leading to catastrophic results.

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[Michael Larson]

Category: Things caused by "Global Warming"

Climate change could be causing cougar attacks: expert Story

[Michael Larson]

Category: Follow the Money

Energy companies are cashing in on Government subsidies by building wind farms that will never make any money because they are being constructed on sites with not enough wind, it has been claimed. Story

[Doug Edwards, CMI]

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” H.L. Mencken