February 12th, 2007

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Is Al gore in Upstate New York

“In all my life, I mean my entire life combined, I’ve never seen this much snow at once,” said Jim Bevridge, 47, of Timmonium, Md., who drove up for a long weekend of snowmobiling. ap

Kyotologists will, no doubt point to this as further and better evidence of global warming. “Like it’s all about weather extremes. this is extreme so it’s global warming.”

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The Ugly Face of America

Is it just me or are these the ugliest coins you’ve ever seen…

us coins

Washington looks pissed, Adams stunned, Jefferson mono browed and poor Madison simply distorted: give me a .90 loonie any time.

via fark

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Climate Change Pushback II

Environmentalism as a metaphysical ideology and as a worldview has absolutely nothing to do with natural sciences or with the climate. Sadly, it has nothing to do with social sciences either. Still, it is becoming fashionable and this fact scares me. The second part of the sentence should be: we also have lots of reports, studies, and books of climatologists whose conclusions are diametrically opposite. Václav Klaus, President of Czech Republic via SDA

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Climate Change Push Back

Mark Steyn puts the boots to the “consensus” and its screw loose economics:

And is nought-point-seven of an uptick worth wrecking the global economy over? Sure, say John Kerry and Al Gore, suddenly retrospectively hot for Kyoto ratification. But, had America and Australia signed on to Kyoto, and had Canada and Europe complied with it instead of just pretending to, by 2050 the treaty would have reduced global warming by 0.07C: a figure that would be statistically undectectable within annual climate variation. And, in return for this meaningless gesture, American GDP in 2010 would be lower by $97 billion to $397 billion — and those are the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s somewhat optimistic models. chicago sun times

And, of course, the science looks shakier by the instant which is what you expect when people are claiming to be 90% certain:

Disdain for the sun goes with a failure by the self-appointed greenhouse experts to keep up with inconvenient discoveries about how the solar variations control the climate. The sun’s brightness may change too little to account for the big swings in the climate. But more than 10 years have passed since Henrik Svensmark in Copenhagen first pointed out a much more powerful mechanism.

He saw from compilations of weather satellite data that cloudiness varies according to how many atomic particles are coming in from exploded stars. More cosmic rays, more clouds. The sun’s magnetic field bats away many of the cosmic rays, and its intensification during the 20th century meant fewer cosmic rays, fewer clouds, and a warmer world. On the other hand the Little Ice Age was chilly because the lazy sun let in more cosmic rays, leaving the world cloudier and gloomier. times online

Delightfully, unlike the CO2 folks, the scientist, Henrik Svensmark, behind the cosmic ray theory have proposed an experiment to test their hypothesis. Imagine that.

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