Australia might be going the way of the Titanic, a climate skeptic wants to be President and you’ll never guess what fracking causes this week. (Daily Bayonet)
Daily Archives: August 18, 2011
In view of Perry’s current stance on AGW, is it a ruse to get things like this in the back door?
Rick Perry tied to Agenda 21, globalist policies | August Forecast & Review
By Terri Hall
Rick Perry may be good at invoking states rights and property rights, while disavowing ‘foreign creditors,’ but his actions as Texas’ longest serving governor tell a different story. Public private partnerships (or P3s) are part and parcel of the United Nations’ Agenda 21. Two of the purposes of Agenda 21 are to abolish private property and restrict mobility and P3s act as the vehicle to do it. Perry made P3s a centerpiece of his transportation policy since he stepped in as governor.
While Perry distracted Texans and tea partiers with ‘emergency’ resolutions on state sovereignty during the 82nd legislature, P3s spread from transportation projects to virtually every other type of public infrastructure in a bill, SB 1048, passed by the Texas legislature which he signed into law June 17.
Now all public infrastructure, including public buildings, schools, nursing homes, ports, mass transit, etc. can be auctioned-off to private interests in long-term sweetheart deals with taxpayer subsidies and profit guarantees using P3s.
P3s give a private corporation the power to tax the public, whether through charging tolls or other so-called ‘user fees,’ to access their own public infrastructure, and, perhaps more insidious, allowing well-connected private entities to profit from concessions on land taken through eminent domain.
Perry’s administration of P3s is like his administration of his Emerging Technology Fund that’s been highly criticized for steering taxpayer money to Perry’s campaign donors — a case in point, Dan Shelley.
Shelley worked for Cintra, who had its sites set on developing the Trans Texas Corridor. Shelley lands a job as Perry’s aide, steers the $7 billion corridor P3 to his former employer Cintra, then goes back to work for Cintra. That’s how Perry does business — pay to play.
A recent Washington Post article documents Perry’s work to get Chinese government-owned telecommunications company Huawei, to base its U.S. operations in Texas, a company that the U.S. government has deemed a threat to national security noting that “three times since 2008, a U.S. government security panel has blocked Huawei from acquiring or partnering with U.S. companies because of concerns that secrets could be leaked to China’s government or military.”
Perry’s coziness with the Chinese and foreign investors exposes a huge weakness in his right flank — illegal immigration and open borders. The Trans Texas Corridor has been linked to the global plan to economically integrate North America, with the eventual goal of a common security perimeter modeled after the European Union. Perry ushered in in-state tuition for illegals and has long been an obstacle to immigration reform or any Arizona-style immigration law.
Perry’s record paints a much different picture than what candidate Perry would have us believe — that he’s a states rights, Constitutionally limited government conservative that’s responsible for the “Texas miracle.” In reality, he’s more like an Agenda 21 globalist willing to sell America to the highest bidder. (August Forecast & Review)
h/t Dennis A.
Posted in Agenda 21, Cap and tax, Climate change
This greenwashing thing is such a hard game
Myth of ‘eco-friendly’ bags exposed as Tesco dumps ‘green’ carriers that may actually harm the environment
By SEAN POULTER
Tesco has stopped using biodegradable carrier bags because they may be even worse for the environment than the conventional type.
The decision is an embarrassment for the chain, which hailed its introduction of the bags as the centrepiece of its efforts to tackle litter and waste. (Daily Mail)
Posted in Propaganda, Unintended consequences
Not global warming but it’s alright – humans still to blame
Human pathogen killing corals in the Florida Keys
Winter Park, Fl. and Athens, Ga. – A research team from Rollins College in Florida and the University of Georgia has identified human sewage as the source of the coral-killing pathogen that causes white pox disease of Caribbean elkhorn coral. Once the most common coral in the Caribbean, elkhorn coral was listed for protection under the United States Endangered Species Act in 2006, largely due to white pox disease. The team’s findings have just been published in the peer-reviewed open access journal PLoS ONE.
Kathryn P. Sutherland, associate professor of biology at Rollins College, and her research collaborators, Associate Professor of Environmental Health Science Erin K. Lipp and Professor of Ecology James W. Porter of the University of Georgia, have known since 2002 that the bacterium that killed coral was the same species as found in humans. “When we identified Serratia marcescens as the cause of white pox, we could only speculate that human waste was the source of the pathogen because the bacterium is also found in the waste of other animals,” Sutherland said.
In order to determine a source for the pathogen, the research team collected and analyzed human samples from the wastewater treatment facility in Key West and samples from several other animals, such as Key deer and seagulls. While Serratia marcescens was found in these other animals, genetic analyses showed that only the strain from human sewage matched the strain found in white pox diseased corals on the reef. The final piece of the investigative puzzle was to show that this unique strain was pathogenic to corals. (EurekAlert)
If only targets cured people rather than inflating the budgets of NGOs
Europe and U.S. accused of stalling U.N. disease talks
global health group on Thursday accused the United States, Canada and Europe of harming efforts to fight cancer, diabetes, heart and other diseases because they will not agree to set United Nations targets.
The main sticking point is money, said Ann Keeling, chair of the NCD Alliance, which groups some 2,000 health organizations from around the world focused on non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Rich nations fear they will have to foot much of the bill for tackling a chronic disease epidemic in poorer nations, and are reluctant to commit to this when their economies are in turmoil, Keeling said. (Reuters)
Posted in Activists, Health care, UN
Iain Murray on how the government is stealing you blind
Forget Corporate Jets. Government Limousines Show They’re Stealing You Blind
by Iain Murray
President Obama has made a big deal out of corporate jets. Apparently they are a symbol not of success but of greed. Yet even as the private jet marked has lagged with the ongoing recession, President Obama’s own employees in his administration have significantly increased the number of limousines available for their travel.
The private jet market has historically risen in line with corporate profits, but started a steep downturn in 2008. The result was the loss of literally thousands of jobs in the factories that make private jets, with Cessna laying off almost 9000 workers alone, mostly in that notorious haunt of millionaires in Wichita, Kansas. Meanwhile, federal government departments increased the numbers of limousines bought in the first two years of the Obama administration by 73 percent, spending $1.9 billion on new cars in 2009 alone. These aren’t cheap autos, either. The most popular model is the Cadillac DTS, with the government paying about $60,000 per vehicle. Cadillac, of course, is part of the bailed-out General Motors.
This all confirms something I examine in my new book, Stealing You Blind: How Government Fatcats Are Getting Rich Off of You. When bureaucrats have taxpayer money to spend, they spend it on themselves. In Chapter Eight (“Municipal Madness”), for example, I detail how two departments (Public Works, and Transportation) of the City of Los Angeles received $111 million between them in stimulus money, and used it to ’save or create’ just 55 jobs, nearly all of them, apparently, in the public sector.
Another example comes in the increasingly risibly-named education sphere. As we all know, vast amounts of taxpayer money have been directed towards global warming research in the past few years. This has led, as we can see from numbers compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to a substantial increase in the salaries of “atmospheric, earth, marine and space science teachers” at public universities. In 2004, before the wave of public funding was unleashed following An Inconvenient Truth, such teachers were paid $53 an hour. Today they earn $70 an hour. On top of that, of course, they have tenure and enviable benefits, not to mention the shorter hours.
Indeed, government workers have made out like bandits while the rest of us eked out our living in the recession. According to USA Today, “When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000.” That was in 2009, before the President announced his much-vaunted “federal pay freeze.”
Posted in Climate change, Regulation
Rick Perry’s CAGW skepticism gaining lots of attention, even down-under
Rick Perry: Climate Change Is A Hoax Drummed Up By Scientists Looking To Make Money
Evan McMorris-Santoro
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is a conservative Republican, and as such he does not believe that climate change is caused by human activity. But Perry went one step further than most in the mainstream climate change denier community on the presidential campaign trail in New Hampshire Wednesday, stating flatly that scientists drum up phony climate change data to make a buck. (TPM)
Rick Perry vs. the Global Warming Fraud
Speaking out against the crime of the century.
John Hayward
Rick Perry, having already demonstrated his meteorological powers by summoning a “black cloud” which destroyed what remained of MSNBC’s credibility, decided to finish off global warming for breakfast in New Hampshire. According to an Associated Press report: (Human Events)
Perry and Romney split on global warming
Philip Rucker
A sharp divide has emerged between two leading Republican presidential candidates on the issue of climate change. While apparent front-runner Mitt Romney believes the world is getting warmer and that humans are contributing to that pattern, Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday called that “a scientific theory that has not been proven.” (WaPo)
Texas League of Conservation Voters Calls Governor Rick Perry’s Disbelief in Global Warming Irresponsible, Ill-Informed
Leading Texas Statewide Environmental Group Blasts GOP Presidential Contender’s Remarks
AUSTIN, TX—The following statement should be attributed to David Weinberg, Executive Director of the Texas League of Conservation Voters. Mr. Weinberg is responding to comments made today by Texas Governor and Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Perry (R-Texas) on global warming:
“As Texas experiences one of the most terrible droughts in the state’s history, Gov. Perry’s comments regarding global warming are irresponsible since global warming only exacerbates droughts. (greenie press release)
A few years ago, such scepticism was political death in the West – but the slant in this report suggests Perry will have trouble with the media still:
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said Wednesday morning that he does not believe in global warming science and suggested it is grounded in scientists manipulating data for financial gain.
The Texas governor was appearing at a New Hampshire breakfast event with business leaders Wednesday morning when he said “there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects.”Perry said scientists are coming forward almost daily to question “the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change.” He said the climate is changing but that it has been changing “ever since the earth was formed.”
Perry added that “the issue of global warming has been politicized,” and argued that America should not spend billions of dollars addressing “a scientific theory that has not been proven, and from my perspective is more and more being put into question.”
(Andrew Bolt)
Posted in Cap and tax, Climate change
New Paper from Lindzen and Choi again indicates low climate sensitivity
Read here and here. Catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW), which theoretically causes climate/weather disasters, relies solely on the climate being highly sensitive to CO2 atmospheric levels. For global warming to reach the predicted IPCC’s “catastrophic” global warming of at least 3°C infers that a doubling of CO2 levels is required – a high climate sensitivity guesstimate by the IPCC modellers. But does this guesstimate reflect observational reality?
The simple answer is ‘No.’ The key sensitivity guesstimate and predicted warming fail empirical scrutiny.
A new study by the MIT climate research area confirms that the climate sensitivity guesstimate is significantly too high per the real world empirical evidence. Instead, the actual climate sensitivity based on empirical measurements is approximately 0.7°C per doubling of CO2 levels, which will not lead to any of the claimed climate disruption and/or weather disasters that alarmists rely on to frighten policymakers. (C3 Headlines)
Wannabe social engineer climate scientists confuse social scientist (who treats their prognostications seriously)
Academic Exercises and Real World Commitments
My exchange last week with James Annan, a climate modeler, was interesting for several reasons, not least, for his suggestion that the projections of the IPCC could not be judged to be wrong because of their probabilistic nature. This view strains common sense, to put it mildly.
Here I argue that our disagreement lies not in different views about the nuts and bolts of probabilistic forecasting, but rather our views on whether the IPCC is engaged in providing guidance to decision makers about the probable course of the future, or instead, is engaged in an academic exercise. This would seem to be a natural point of disagreement between an academic involved in modeling and a policy scholar. James does the climate science community no favors by personalizing the debate, so here I’ll stick to the issues, which are worth a discussion. (Roger Pielke Jr.)
Posted in Climate change
Doug L. Hoffman: Himalayan Glacier Disappearance Overstated
Himalayan Glacier Disappearance Overstated
Submitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Wed, 08/17/2011 – 08:28
A pair of researchers has published a new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in which two out of three glaciers studied were disappearing. In a report that was edited by James Hansen, of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, it would appear that the glaciers of the Himalaya are melting rapidly, but that is not how the report ends. The authors state that poor selection of study sites have led to the widespread use of non-representative data. Moreover, the IPCC report and others overstate the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers. (The Resilient Earth)
Posted in Climate change
Luboš Motl responds to SciAm and Gavin Schmidt
SciAm, Gavin Schmidt despise climate facts
Scientific American, one of the most ideological and most persistent defenders of the dying climate alarm, has decided that John Cook’s memes-vs-slogans formatof presenting the climate orthodoxy is the most efficient format that alarmists have ever invented – despite the fact that John Cook is just a former candidate to become a student of physics. Cook has been more successful – at least in his attempts to indicate that some climate alarmists are interested in science – than An Inconvenient Truth and 10:10 No Pressure combined.
So they borrowed their closest “expert” hired gun denier of the fact that the climate nonsense is sinking and approaching the bottom of the sea – glob glob glob – and decided to “fight” against important facts presented by the Australia-based Galileo Movement in a booklet:
Why Carbon Dioxide Is a Greenhouse Gas (Gavin)
See also: ‘Galileo Movement’ Fuels Climate Change Divide in Australia (SciAm)
Nicely enough, at the beginning, Gavin Schmidt admits that every single fact presented by the Galileo Movement is true (at the end he tries to contradict himself a little bit but he fails). However, while he tries to explain that these inconvenient facts are “irrelevant”, he says a lots of things that are unfortunately untrue and many other things where his bias is flagrantly obvious. (The Reference Frame)
Posted in Climate change, Propaganda
William Happer: The Truth About Greenhouse Gases
The Truth About Greenhouse Gases
Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:43 William Happer
“The object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the most remarkable instances of those moral epidemics which have been excited, sometimes by one cause and sometimes by another, and to show how easily the masses have been led astray, and how imitative and gregarious men are, even in their infatuations and crimes,” wrote Charles Mackay in the preface to the first edition of his Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. I want to discuss a contemporary moral epidemic: the notion that increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide, will have disastrous consequences for mankind and for the planet. This contemporary “climate crusade” has much in common with the medieval crusades Mackay describes, with true believers, opportunists, cynics, money-hungry governments, manipulators of various types, and even children’s crusades.
Read the full paper here (GWPF)
Posted in Climate change, Research
Doesn’t matter that it was “highly inappropriate” because… it’s their “standard practice”
New Allegations Leveled Against Polar Bear Scientist
by NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE
The polar bear researcher who was suspended from his government job last month has received a new letter from investigators that lays out actions he took that are described as being “highly inappropriate” under the rules that apply to managing federal contracts.
According to the letter, wildlife biologist Charles Monnett told investigators that he assisted a scientist in preparing that scientist’s proposal for a government contract. Monnett then served as chairman of a committee that reviewed that proposal. (NPR)
Annual recycling of the walrus/lack-of-ice scam
Melting Arctic sea ice drives walruses onto land
Fast-melting Arctic sea ice appears to be pushing walruses to haul themselves out onto land, and many are moving around the area where oil leases have been sold, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.
Walruses are accomplished divers and frequently plunge hundreds of feet (meters) to the bottom of the continental shelf to feed. But they use sea ice as platforms to give birth, nurse their young and elude predators, and when sea ice is scarce or non-existent, as it has been this summer, they come up on land. (Reuters)
Posted in Activists, Propaganda
PlayStation® climatology crashes and burns – again
Researchers Determine Climate Model Prediction Wrong: Human CO2 Does Not Enhance El Niños
Read here. Computer programmers purposefully coded the climate model simulations to produce ENSO events that increased both in frequency and intensity, with stronger El Niños leading to more severe weather results. This was done in the belief that human CO2-induced global warming would produce such results. Unfortunately for the IPCC and its climate modellers, these simulated climate predictions were wrong. (C3 Headlines)
Posted in Climate, PlayStation® climatology, Research
