According to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, climate talks are simply evidence of the “arrogance of man.” It is expected that next week Palin will announce her campaign to dismantle all dams, re-irrigation programs, and forest fire suppression programs in part of her “de-arrogancing of man.”
This signature tweet from Palin came on Saturday. Here is what she wrote:
Copenhgen=arrogance of man2think we can change nature’s ways.MUST b good stewards of God’s earth,but arrogant&naive2say man overpwers nature
Earth saw clmate chnge4 ions;will cont 2 c chnges.R duty2responsbly devlop resorces4humankind/not pollute&destroy;but cant alter naturl chng
I am glad that someone has the courage to fight efforts to deal with weather changes. I am personally appalled by the widespread us of clothes. It is clear from the Bible that God never intended us to have clothes in the first place.
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6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all the livestock
and all the wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
Everything I see people wearing clothing or umbrellas to protect them from nature, I share Palin’s disgust.
For the story, click here.
They may be able to tweet on Twitter, but their core mind is quite literally deep in the medieval Dark Ages.
I would of used Medieval Warm Period
I hate to waste time paying attention to the ex-governor*, but it’s important to spell out what she is saying in her (mangled) tweets:
She, like millions of Americans, believes that it is literally IMPOSSIBLE for humans to damage “God’s creation.” Yes, we’re talking Taliban-type fundamentalist beliefs. Palin is a Pentacostal who lives in a world of creationism and witches. No science, evidence or reason is going to overcome their interpretation of scripture. A major slice of Americans who deny that human caused global warming is actually happening are driven by these supernatural beliefs. They may be able to tweet on Twitter, but their core mind is quite literally deep in the medieval Dark Ages.
My introduction to this particular flavor of crazy was by a Lyndon LaRouche supporter who had a table set up in a square in Munich, Germany. He explained that (in his world-view), it was impossible for human beings to damage God’s creation. (Translation from kook-speak: “It is arrogant of human beings to claim that we COULD damage the environment.”) He went on to explain that environmentalism is Satan worship. You see, environmentalism is the worship of the earth, and the “earth mother” or “earth goddess” is just Satan in disguise. Ergo, working to prevent damage to the environment is an act of worshiping Satan.
I am not making this up. This is the world in which the ex-governor and many others (perhaps Sen. Inhofe?) live.
(*I live in a COUNTY with a population of 5.5 million. The population of Alaska is a bit under 700k. From my perspective, being governor of AK is several steps below being the executive of my county in terms of experience, difficulty and qualification. When you look at the moron running Cook County, IL, you see someone who probably should run away from his post, but hasn’t. What exactly was so hard about being governor of AK? Oh, right, it was someone else’s fault that she had to quit.)
I stopped going to the thread on 9-11, my virtual memory has been running low and my comp. freezes up when I went there.
So no, I didn’t see your post.
Here’s a good read for you
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/who_needs_data.html
Did you watch The Cloud Mystery?
Bdaman:
I am now glad that I never went to Buildabear when my kids were young.
What the heck can you say to crap like that?
All those little kids worried about Santa’s home melting, oh the humanity.
Bdaman:
I asked on another thread why you had not been posting lately.
And anyway I don’t know how to refute your overwhelming number of facts. 🙂 All that I have been reading leads me to believe that AGW is a bit over done. There may be some climate change but as I said above what is the “average” historic earth temperature and what are the normal statistical deviations to that “average”.
So far I haven’t found anyone that knows.
It may be over 2 degrees C, what does that do to AGW theory?
By the way did you like my post about being a super troll? I thought that funny actually.
Byron, what are you on strict orders not to engage the troll.
The Chinese did not take a page from Trump’s book and forgot or never knew his adage “when you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem. When you owe them a billion (or in the case of the Chines a couple of trillion), they have a problem.”
The Chinese are going to learn a hard lesson – never deal with a socialist country. They always end up running out of other people’s money.
Hu Jintao are you listening?
I didn’t know the Turley blog had become the new weather channel!
I’d rather have it hot then this.
Wintry storms and freezing weather over the last week have caused nearly 100 deaths across Europe, including at least 42 in Poland, 27 in Ukraine and 12 people in France. Many of those who died were homeless people who froze to death.
Another 13 people died in car accidents in Austria, Finland and Germany, where temperatures dropped well below zero.
16,000 cars stuck in Britain
Roads were also severely hit with Britain’s AA breakdown service reporting a record 16,000 vehicles stuck or in accidents on Monday. Major roads across Europe were blocked in areas with heavy snow, some up to 20 inches.
Britain’s weather service forecast more snow across Scotland and northern England on Tuesday night and into Wednesday. “It will be very cold and icy with a locally severe frost and some areas of freezing fog,” it added.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34522840/ns/weather
Global Warming: None Like It Hot
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Carbon prices fall in wake of Copenhagen
By Chris Flood and Fiona Harvey
Published: December 22 2009 02:00 | Last updated: December 22 2009 02:00
Carbon prices plunged yesterday in the aftermath of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, dealing a blow to the credibility of the European Union’s carbon-trading scheme.
Prices for carbon permits for December 2010 delivery, the benchmark contract for pricing European permits, dropped nearly 10 per cent in early trading, before recovering to end the day 8.3 per cent lower at €12.41.
Lower prices give companies less incentive to invest in cutting their greenhouse gas output. Analysts estimate that prices of more than €40 a tonne are required to stimulate investment in new low-carbon technologies.
Carbon traders blamed the price fall on the Copenhagen conference, which produced an accord among the world’s biggest developed and developing countries to limit their greenhouse gas emissions, but omitted details on what those limits would be. Governments now have a month to submit formal pledges on how far they will reduce their carbon output.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c1a7aade-ee98-11de-944c-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1
From Global Warming Believer To Skeptic
By: Bradley Fikes — December 21st, 2009
A few years ago, I accepted global warming theory with few doubts. I wrote several columns for this paper condemning what I thought were unfair attacks by skeptics and defending the climate scientists.
Boy, was I naive.
Since the Climategate emails and documents revealed active collusion to thwart skeptics and even outright fraud, I’ve been trying to correct the record of my earlier foolishness. In one of those columns, I even wrote: “And see Real Climate (www.realclimate.org) for global warming science without the political spin.”
In fact, Real Climate was and is nothing more than the house organ of global warming activists, concerned more with politics than with science.
My mistake was assuming only the purest of motives of the global warming alarmists, while assuming the worst of the skeptics. In fact, the soi-disant moralists of the global warming movement can also exploit their agenda for profit.
http://www.nctimes.com/app/blogs/wp/?p=6063
From hide the decline to just change history
Lawrence Solomon at the National Post writes about a topic that readers have known about for a long time: How Wikipedia’s green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles.
We’ve known for some time that Wikipedia can’t be trusted to provide unbiased climate information. Solomon starts off by talking about Climategate emails.
The emails also describe how the band plotted to rewrite history as well as science, particularly by eliminating the Medieval Warm Period, a 400 year period that began around 1000 AD.
The Climategate Emails reveal something else, too: the enlistment of the most widely read source of information in the world — Wikipedia — in the wholesale rewriting of this history.
He then focuses on RealClimate.org co-founder William Connolley, who has “touched” 5,428 Wikipedia articles with his unique brand of RC centric editing:
All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.
The Medieval Warm Period disappeared, as did criticism of the global warming orthodoxy. With the release of the Climategate Emails, the disappearing trick has been exposed. The glorious Medieval Warm Period will remain in the history books, perhaps with an asterisk to describe how a band of zealots once tried to make it disappear.
William Connolley – Wikipedia image
Wikipedia suffers from the same problem that climate science in general suffers from now. A few determined zealots have influenced the vast majority of the published information.
Petersen
IMHO it is time for Connolley to step aside from Wikipedia, one person should not have so much influence over so many articles. At the same time, the number two person, almost as influential, is Kim Dabelstein Peterson. Here’s a National Review article on the kind of things Petersen has been doing in similar to the work of Connolley.
Additionally, there are many Wikipedia editors and contributors that do so anonymously, and I think that is terribly wrong. There’s no accountability, no quality control, and no recourse to people who falsify information, or mold it to fit a personal agenda. Wikipedia relies upon an honor system, and as we’ve seen from the Climategate emails, there’s no honor in some circles of climate science.
Here is another example:
The Opinionator
Posted: May 03, 2008, 2:53 AM by Lawrence Solomon
Connolley is not only a big shot on Wikipedia, he’s a big shot at Wikipedia — an Administrator with unusual editorial clout. Using that clout, this 40-something scientist of minor relevance gets to tear down scientists of great accomplishment. Because Wikipedia has become the single biggest reference source in the world, and global warming is one of the most sought after subjects, the ability to control information on Wikipedia by taking down authoritative scientists is no trifling matter.
Do as we say, not as we do
December 21, 2009
Gordon Brown calls for new group to police global environment issues
The UN’s consensual method of negotiation, which requires all 192 countries to reach agreement, needs to be reformed to ensure that the will of the majority prevails
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6963482.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=3392178
When The O lost his cool with China in Hopenhagen the Chinese responded the next day.
Harder to buy US Treasuries
Author:Zhou Xin and Jason Subler
IT is getting harder for governments to buy United States Treasuries because the US’s shrinking current-account gap is reducing supply of dollars overseas, a Chinese central bank official said yesterday.
The comments by Zhu Min, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, referred to the overall situation globally, not specifically to China, the biggest foreign holder of US government bonds.
Chinese officials generally are very careful about commenting on the dollar and Treasuries, given that so much of its US$2.3 trillion reserves are tied to their value, and markets always watch any such comments closely for signs of any shift in how it manages its assets.
China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange reaffirmed this month that the dollar stands secure as the anchor of the currency reserves it manages, even as the country seeks to diversify its investments.
In a discussion on the global role of the dollar, Zhu told an academic audience that it was inevitable that the dollar would continue to fall in value because Washington continued to issue more Treasuries to finance its deficit spending.
He then addressed where demand for that debt would come from.
“The United States cannot force foreign governments to increase their holdings of Treasuries,” Zhu said, according to an audio recording of his remarks. “Double the holdings? It is definitely impossible.”
“The US current account deficit is falling as residents’ savings increase, so its trade turnover is falling, which means the US is supplying fewer dollars to the rest of the world,” he added. “The world does not have so much money to buy more US Treasuries.”
China continues to see its foreign exchange reserves grow, albeit at a slower pace than in past years, due to a large trade surplus and inflows of foreign investment. They stood at US$2.3 trillion at the end of September.
On environment, Obama and scientists take hit in poll
Climate Change
Political polarization
View a graphic showing President Obama’s appproval ratings
As President Obama arrives in Copenhagen hoping to seal an elusive deal on climate change, his approval rating on dealing with global warming has crumbled at home and there is broad opposition to spending taxpayer money to encourage developing nations to curtail their energy use, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Scientists themselves also come in for more negative assessments in the poll, with four in 10 Americans now saying that they place little or no trust in what scientists have to say about the environment. That’s up significantly in recent years. About 58 percent of Republicans now put little or no faith in scientists on the subject, double the number saying so in April 2007. Over this time frame, distrust among independents bumped up from 24 to 40 percent, while Democrats changed only marginally. Among seniors, the number of skeptics more than doubled, to 51 percent.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/18/AR2009121800002.html
Another massive storm has begun to develop
Potential for Crippling Blizzard in the Plains Before Christmas
Following the record-setting blizzard in the East this past weekend, eyes are turning to the potential for a significant snowstorm in the Plains by the middle to end of the week. Intensifying winds could create an all-out blizzard for portions of the Plains and the Upper Midwest.
http://www.accuweather.com/news-top-headline.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&date=2009-12-20_12:55
For $250 million verses the alternative I say it’s worth it.
But if it works, alot of people will surely miss out on their investments.
I don’t know Byrom but we MUST ACT KNOW.
Wanna bet nobody that is a believer will give this guy a try.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2511875/nathan_myhrvolds_anti_global_warming.html?cat=15