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.
Cold Hits 30 Cities in Hidalgo (Mexican state)
Temperatures fell to 8 to 2 degrees Celsius. The cold wave has affected areas in the north, center and south of Mexico.
Director of the State Civil Defense System, Miguel García Conde, confirmed that this season has not been typical, because warm temperatures are usually recorded thru December, also in the middle of the week there was heavy rain in almost the entire state, and with the beginning of winter the first frost was recorded in 30 of the 84 municipalities, a very rare event.
He says that January will be a month when much greater cold will be experienced based on future forecast models.
Climate change alliance crumbling
The so-called Basic countries – Brazil, South Africa, India and China – backed the accord in a meeting with the US on Friday night, and it was also supported by almost all other nations at the talks, including all of the biggest emitters.
But on Tuesday the Brazilian government labelled the accord “disappointing” and complained that the financial assistance it contained from rich to poor countries was insufficient.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c9453654-ef2d-11de-86c4-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1
50 years of cooling predicted in new peer review study
Cosmic rays and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), both already implicated in depleting the Earth’s ozone layer, are also responsible for changes in the global climate, a University of Waterloo scientist reports in a new peer-reviewed paper.
In his paper, Qing-Bin Lu, a professor of physics and astronomy, shows how CFCs – compounds once widely used as refrigerants – and cosmic rays – energy particles originating in outer space – are mostly to blame for climate change, rather than carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. His paper, derived from observations of satellite, ground-based and balloon measurements as well as an innovative use of an established mechanism, was published online in the prestigious journal Physics Reports.
”My findings do not agree with the climate models that conventionally thought that greenhouse gases, mainly CO2, are the major culprits for the global warming seen in the late 20th century,” Lu said. “Instead, the observed data show that CFCs conspiring with cosmic rays most likely caused both the Antarctic ozone hole and global warming….”
In his research, Lu discovers that while there was global warming from 1950 to 2000, there has been global cooling since 2002. The cooling trend will continue for the next 50 years, according to his new research observations.
http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~qblu/CV.html
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/50_years_of_cooling_predicted#65269
Tootie:
“Ivy league grads have been, essentially, running America for most of the last century. And we are on the brink of disaster because of it and them.
They are the worst among us. Yes, worse than drug dealers, thieves, hookers, porn producers, trolls, con men, and rappers.”
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Well let’s see now over the last century these “Ivy League grads,” as you call them, have defeated two fascists bent on world dominion, advanced science to the point where life spans have dramatically increased, cured diseases such as polio and small pox, made our country the envy of the world and the cultural center of civilization, and, all the while, beaten back every attempt to stop these advances by the troglodyte fundie Christian crowd who think that we are a doomed, loathsome species, unworthy of anything unless our fantasy Santa Claus in the sky gives it too us. They’ve had considerable help of course, as every thinking person knows, but their contributions are manifest,as well.
Tootie, you are the classic anti-elitist who resents the simple fact that there are those among us quite a bit smarter and more able than you and and those of your ilk who consider themselves admirers of the so-called “common man.” ( I call them “mass men”) I, of course, exclude myself from the crowd of doers and thinkers and leave others to judge my paltry contributions, but your anti-intellectualism, anti-humanism, and downright anti-Americanism is becoming tiresome. I have never asked anyone to leave the blog, and I won’t ask you to do so either, but could you raise your game just a tad so I don’t place you in the same category of those other nattering nabobs like Glen Beck and, your apparent heroine, Sarah Palin? They get no respect in thinking person circles, and never get read either — likely because they have nothing to say of merit.
The next time you get on one of these “anti-smart people, I like average” rants consider, if you can, whether you’d want an elite surgeon working on you in a life threatening emergency, or one with the mean accomplishments of the mass men you so basely and foolishly admire. You can be governed by the first 100 names in the telephone book, not me.
Byron after an overwhelming response to the Build A Bear Video we get this today.
Our intention with the Polar Bear story was to inspire children, through the voices of our animal characters, to make a difference in their own individual ways. We did not intend to politicize the topic of global climate change or offend anyone in any way. The webisodes concluded this week with Santa successfully leaving on his journey to deliver gifts around the world. The webisodes will no longer be available on the site.
Sincerely,
Maxine Clark
Founder and Chief Executive Bear
Build-A-Bear Workshop
Don’t have to worry about her making any backroom deals.
What ever happened to all those investigations?
Climate talks are no example of man’s arrogance, climate change is.
I’ll take one housewife from Alaska over ten thousand Ivy League grads any day.
Ivy league grads have been, essentially, running America for most of the last century. And we are on the brink of disaster because of it and them.
They are the worst among us. Yes, worse than drug dealers, thieves, hookers, porn producers, trolls, con men, and rappers.
C.S. Lewis wrote in the Screwtape Letters
“The greatest evil is not done now in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not even done in concentration camps and labor camps. In those we see its final results. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.”
That’s who the Ivy league crowd is. In the immortal words of Obi wan Kenobi’s they are “a hive of scum and villainy”.
Give me the moose hunting housewife with a messy family life, she is more trustworthy.
And yes your right Byron a warmer planet is better than a frozen one. Can’t grow crops in Ice or snow.
Oh, forgot, the crops best friend, CO2
Byron a friend of mine told me,
“Global Warming is for real, I don’t care what you say, I’ve seen it up close and in my lifetime. I’ve been to over 30 National Parks, talk to the people on the ground, they agree with me”
I told him wow, 30 national parks and you’ve seen them all before the age of 50. Mighty long time compared to this little blue marble. Wow fifty years
I don’t care what you say, I’ve seen it. I know it’s real
I just shook my head and said, O.K., If you say so.
Right, GW (actually “climate change”)
Two different things, in short
Global Warming = A Warming Globe
Climate Change = A Climatic Change Warm or Cold
Thats why Alarmist now say that Global Warming will actually make it snow and cause winter storms as Rafflaw points out.
winter storms are one of the offshoots from global warming. Sorry to confuse you with facts. http://climateprogress.org/2009/12/20/global-warming-copenhagen-snow-storm-blizzard-extreme-weather/
If this is the case and you have Blizzard after Blizzard or record cold and snow for a longer duration. This would mean the over all temperature for the year will flat line or become negative creating Global Cooling.
So in reality from an Alarmist stand point Global Warming is actually good cause it creates Global Cooling and together they make Climate Change.
And yes your right Byron a warmer planet is better than a frozen one. Can’t grow crops in Ice or snow.
bDAMAN:
the earth, for most of it’s history, has been warm.
People are funny, we have been here for a blip in geologic time and we see everything in intervals of 20 years (a generation). An equivalent interval for earth would be 1.75 billion years.
That is overstated but you get the idea.
There might be a warming cycle of 20 million years and the temperature change we are seeing is just a short cycle movement and then back to normal.
Byron, the alarmist have been programmed over the course of thirty years, it will take a little time to de-program them. I’m doing the best I can, hopefully it won’t take as long to reverse it.
They can not deny the Medieval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age.
Both before the industrial revolution and both with human inhabitants in the world.
Medieval Warm Period was basically removed from the climate record by Michael Mann’s infamous “hockey stick” history graph that was adopted by the IPCC a decade ago. This was a way to program the flock. Out of sight, out of mind.
After the MWP a period of cooling took place known as the Little Ice Age.
We can go back further to Pliocene Warm Interval, a period of warm climate conditions that preceded the current Pleistocene Ice Age. Occurring some 4 million years ago, the Pliocene warm interval has been difficult to explain.
The early Pliocene epoch from 5.3 to about 3 million years ago was much warmer than today. The early Pliocene climate was very much like preindustrial conditions during the Holocene (our current interglacial warm period). Similarities include the amount of solar radiation Earth received, the concentration of atmospheric CO2, and a nearly identical geographic environment. But there were also significant differences. For example, there was no permanent ice sheet in the Northern Hemisphere, and global sea level was 80 feet higher.
Again, watch The Mystery Cloud
Global warming doesn’t just mean that some areas of Earth will get warmer–it will likely affect weather patterns and ocean currents. What happens if the temperature rises enough to cause changes in the jet stream, Gulf Stream, the North Atlantic Drift, etc.?
Tom–
Here’s one for you:
From God’s Lips
Many eons ago—
Six thousand years to be exact—
God said: “I’ll make me a planet.”
(That’s a verified fact.)
“It will rotate on its axis
And spin around the sun
From the beginning of creation
Until Rapture time has come.
“Sometimes Earth will get quite chilly
And have long icy ages.
Other times it’ll be warm.
It will keep going through stages.
“Forget about car emissions…
Other kinds of air pollution.
There won’t be a greenhouse problem—
So you won’t need a solution.
“The Earth’s climate will keep changing.
It’s all a part of MY plan.
Global warming will have nothing to do
With the activities of man.”
To Byron,
I’ll let you google: “predicted effects of climate change”
Right, GW (actually “climate change”) is great for Beach Boys just like the hole in the ozone layer was a boon for those who liked to get a tan.
John Puma:
wouldn’t global warming with a 2 degree rise in temperature promote longer growing seasons?
I for one am sick of the cold. There is about 18″ of snow outside my window here in Virginia, near DC. My wife says it hasn’t snowed like this (in this area) before Christmas in quite some time.
GW sucks for skiers but for people who like the beach it would be a great thing. Surfs up baby 🙂 and I do like the Beach Boys.
TomD.Arch:
some of us are but then some that believe in AGW are bowing to their own god/goddess as well, without paying homage to the science.
The science is not settled on this issue, apparently because scientists with differing opinions were denied access to scientific journals.
I would say people who engage in falsifying scientific data and restricting a free and open debate are worse than someone who believes in Satan. Talk about your Medieval mindset, sounds to me like the ghost of the Spanish Inquisition is alive and well and has a new incarnation in East Anglia at the CRU.
To Byron,
The earth is (3-4) billions of years old.
Estimates on temperature exists for periods as long as 2 billion years ago.
(Humans appeared some 5-7 million years ago.)
http://www.scotese.com/climate.htm
The measured earth temperature has varied between 10 and 25 (Centigrade degrees.) We are at about 15.5 C, now. The last maximum was perhaps 30 million years before the humans appeared. Efforts to avoid the predicted harmful effects climate changes are geared toward avoiding a 2 C rise in temperature.
Deniers like to point out that the earth has had much higher CO2 levels and higher temperatures. While true, they fail to acknowledge when that was the case, there were not only NO humans but hardly 6 billion humans depending on climate consistently favorable for growing a food supply.
There is no average historic temperature reported because that is not a useful measure.