The Realists Take on Climate Change

The heat is being turned on for New Zealand Dairy Farmer according to Stuff. In the wake of a general election farmers seem to be having to justify their position for the production of FOOD!

Dairy farmers are feeling hard done by, says a rural lobbyist who says a key issue of the coming general election is the right of farmers to continue to produce food.

"We have been under constant attack for being dairy farmers," Federated Farmers dairy leader Frank Brenmuhl said in notes for a speech to a federation conference in Christchurch tomorrow (SUBS: Wednesday).

He said election year was when politicians made promises, touted the benefits they had wrought, and when political parties, "try to influence the public in order to justify their existence".

Dairy farmers were being held responsible for greenhouse gas emissions that the could do little about without reducing food production, he said.

A link with some very good satire.....

Recycling 'Global Warming' Rubbish - Philip Stott

The mindless rubbish about ‘global warming’ that is recycled on a daily basis by journalists, or spouted on radio and television, surely deserves its very own ‘Recycling Code’ to match that, say, for plastics. Global Warming Politics is happy to oblige.

So, here below, is your official 2008 ‘Guide to the International Symbols for Recycling Media Rubbish about ‘Global Warming’’. Please feel free to print out the labels, and to stick them onto relevant newspaper articles, news reports, or editorials, but be especially careful to place the offending clichés into the correctly-marked and correctly-coloured bins, also provided below(*).

The Canada Free Press Editor, Judi McLeod, had the following to say about The Carbon Sense Coalition .

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for the preparation of independent Economic and Environmental Impact Statements before Australia or New Zealand introduced an Emissions Trading Scheme.The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for the preparation of independent Economic and Environmental Impact Statements before Australia or New Zealand introduced an Emissions Trading Scheme.

The chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said it was staggering that politicians could consider such a huge speculative venture with no Prospectus, no independent economic assessment, no environmental impact statement, no due diligence and no sunset clauses.

From the USA we have had a story in recent day's concerning NASA scientist Jim Hansen's call to try fossil fuel CEO's for crimes against humanity. This article from Facing South, gives a good account of the reaction from CO2 Skeptics.

Not surprisingly, the same outfits that have helped corporate greenhouse gas polluters spread disinformation about the science of climate change are none too pleased with NASA scientist Jim Hansen's call to try fossil fuel CEOs for crimes against humanity.

We received a comment about our earlier post today on Hansen's congressional testimony from someone calling themselves "climatestrategies." Though the Blogger profile is not public, we're guessing from the name that these are probably the folks behind Climate Strategies Watch, a project of the fossil fuel-funded climate change deniers at North Carolina's John Locke Foundation and the Heartland Institute of Chicago. The commenter wrote:

"Deluges are coming this weekend & early next week".

UK: Will it Flood THIS July?

AND Latest news:-

- Breakthroughs in extreme weather forecasting across the world

- News on scientists challenge to Global warming hype.

Meeting for Friday 27th June 12noon at: -

WeatherAction, Delta House, 175-177BoroughHigh street SE1 1HR.

Piers Corbyn of Weather Action will report on important successes* of WeatherAction's forcasts this month in Britain and America and spell out key points of Weather Action's forecast for July.

Piers said "Already heavy rain has been causing local flooding in parts of the British Isles this month in line with our forecast; and the central USA has been hit by tornadoes and heavy rain like we said.

"Our long range forecast for deluges and floods btween 29th June and 2nd July still stands - so Glastonbury and Wimbledon watch out! On Friday we will announce important key weather events likley to happen in July in Britain and the USA.

"We will also explain why the Government should stop wasting taxpayers money combatting the Climate Change bogey. The first political Party to stand up for scientific integrity in the face of Global warming hype should win the next election" said Piers.

NOTE:- SEE UPDATE BELOW

Dr. Fred W. Decker, Professor of Meteorology at Oregon State University, signed the 2008 Oregon Petition dissenting from man-made climate fears. "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.

We had a look at the recent Global Temperature Data from the Climate Research Unit on the following link http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/hadcrut3vgl.txt and found that the results show May as having a decrease in world temperatures compared to the "Warm Years".

The CO2Sceptics forecast for Global Temps during 2008 is that they will be up and down for the remainder of the year and thats because the Solar Output of the Sun is going to be in "fits and starts". The Sun is not expected to be with the more familiar, constant and predictable energy we have seen for the past 60 years. You only have to look at the "Warm years" to see how constant that period was.

Just think of it like a unborn child moving about inside its mothers tummy, Solar Cycle 24 is not due for delivery until about 2011-2012, but before then we will have this up and down trend, giving a contrast to monthly Global Temps.

We were not sure if we should have included this article from TheDay by Judy Benson, as it's full of "Man Made Climate Change" anxiety, they even say it is! Let's not forget that people who follow this as "fact" have a very real belief system, and think of "Man Made Climate Change" as a very big problem. As a result of this anxiety, they want to inform other people what is in store for us if we do not change the "Man Made" CO2 output and save the world.

It's just like the anxiety that some people have with a religious belief system, it can make them think other people need to be saved. This in a sense is in the same mental process in that, if we don't listen to the peril of "Man Made Climate Change" the Earth will end as a result of too much CO2 in the atmosphere.

The thought process behind our reasoning with information we accept as fact is called cognitive dissonance, it is the very reason why we accept information in the way that we do. Think of it as the minds jigsaw puzzle, it has all the correct number of pieces and we each have a unique and different picture as to our outlook on life.

When someone comes along and tries to change some of the jigzaw pieces there is conflict as to what this new information will do to the picture we have made, so, it's not easy to undo a belief system. You will see from this article, that the people invold feel certain of what is in store if "Man Made" Co2 is not reduced, they put the year for the end of the world at 2012, now where have we heard that before?

Experts say scope of the problem makes it hard for people to be optimistic

To Patricia Kremer, climate change is a runaway train carrying Earth toward a forbidding future.

”Just stop the train,” said Kremer, a retiring marine scientist who has witnessed the effects during her studies of the ocean's environments for 30 years. She and her husband, James, who is also about to retire from a career as a marine scientist and professor, work at the University of Connecticut's Avery Point campus.

A great article from Intellectual Conservative by Timothy Birdnow, he makes a good summary and suggests it's time to throw in the towel on AGW.

The traditional American zeal which accompanied settlement — and the evangelistic crusade to tame and purify it — is being channeled into modern Environmentalism.

America has always been a frontier nation. The first settlers, faced with the daunting task of conquering a hostile continent, embarked on what can only be described as an epic quest, a Biblical venture to "be fruitful and multiply, and subdue the Earth." Fired with dreams of prosperity, idealism, and religious zeal, the early settlers set the nation on a course of expansion and settlement unprecedented in human history; Thomas Jefferson believed that it would take at least a thousand years to settle the newly-acquired Louisiana Territory, yet the land hunger and missionaristic spirit which inflamed so many of those coming to these shores drove Americans ever onward, filling the land in 1/10th that time. Many of those who would become settlers were particularly ill-suited to the venture, yet they doggedly pushed forward despite dangerous weather, hostile natives, drought, dust storms, floods, fires, and even locusts. They defiantly stared down the Plagues of Egypt and possessed the land.

Now here is a real change for the Observer by Juliette Jowit, environment editor, they are letting people know that most Britons doubt cause of climate change.....Now lets have a poll on how many Journalists think the same!

The majority of the British public is still not convinced that climate change is caused by humans - and many others believe scientists are exaggerating the problem, according to an exclusive poll for The Observer.

The results have shocked campaigners who hoped that doubts would have been silenced by a report last year by more than 2,500 scientists for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which found a 90 per cent chance that humans were the main cause of climate change and warned that drastic action was needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The findings come just before the release of the government's long-awaited renewable energy strategy, which aims to cut the UK's greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent over the next 12 years.