An Inconvenient Alarm

Global Cooling, Carbon Credit Scheme

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:21:00 +0000

Been a while, but here are a couple relevant videos for you to ponder over:

Record Lows in South Africa

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:27:00 +0000

You know, I thought with "global warming" it was supposed to get, well, warmer. Tell that to the citizens of South Africa which just experienced their coldest September night in recorded history with several areas experiencing snow!

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=14&art_id=vn20080921084615870C810928

Old Farmer's Almanac: Global Cooling

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:17:00 +0000

How long has Al Gore been tracking weather? Well, the Old Farmer's Almanac has been tracking weather for 217 years and its latest predictions contradict those warming fanatics. Prepare for global COOLING! That's right.

"We at the Almanac are among those who believe that sunspot cycles and their effects on oceans correlate with climate changes," writes meteorologist and climatologist Joseph D'Aleo. "Studying these and other factor suggests that cold, not warm, climate may be our future."

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2008-09-09-farmers-almanac_N.htm

It's All About the Sun

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:06:00 +0000

The single biggest influence of climate on our planet is the SUN, not humans. In a recently released report, we have just experienced our first "sunspot-less" month in 100 years. What does that mean to us? Well: "In the past 1000 years, three previous such events -- the Dalton, Maunder, and Spörer Minimums, have all led to rapid cooling."

Read on...

http://www.dailytech.com/Sun+Makes+History+First+Spotless+Month+in+a+Century/article12823.htm

Cold April

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:00:00 +0000

According to the National Climatic Data Center this past April was the coldest April in the past 11 years and was the 29th coldest since record keeping began 114 years ago.

http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/18801014.html

Gore: Lies and Big Money

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:11:00 +0000

From "An Inconvenient Truth" we have more lies. ABC's 20/20 just ran a spot on how Al Gore's alarming documentary deceived viewers by using computer generated video footage from the movie The Day After Tomorrow to depict calving of the Antarctic ice shelves. Karen Goulekas, Special Effects surpervisor from The Day After Tomorrow confirms, "That's a fully computer generated shot. There's nothing real in there."

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/04/22/abc-s-20-20-gore-used-fictional-film-clip-inconvenient-truth

This comes on the heels of Gore admitting what had long been suspected and many sources attempted to prove -- he has a number of financial interests in advancing global warming. This came within weeks after Richard Campbell, a spokesman for Gore's Generation Investment Management fund, continued to claim that Gore did not have a financial interest, and someone who thinks you can benefit financially from carbon offsets lacks knowledge in the industry.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/04/11/gore-admits-financial-reasons-advancing-global-warming-hysteria

Excuse me, Mr. Campbell? Carbon finance is a multi-billion dollar international industry! This Fortune Magazine article does a nice job of dissecting the industry and how it works. Companies like EcoSecurities buy carbon credits from those that prevent carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere for about $4 and sell them to international banks for about $18. The banks are risking that these credits will gain value or sell them to a European power company that needs the credits to meets its regulatory obligations (so if you don't siphon off enough CO2 as a power plant, you can just buy your way into meeting standards). How about the Chinese HFC23 (a refrigerant gas that effectively traps heat) factories that are allowed to claim 11,700 carbon credits for creating a gas that they've been selling for years? They've sunk $150 million into creating the product but have made $6 billion from credits, prompting some to point out that, "Chinese refrigerant companies have become carbon-credit factories that only incidentally sell refrigerants."

Read on... it's unbelievable how much money is being made, not from a product, but from the prevention of making a product that plant life around the world naturally absorbs and turns into oxygen:

http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/15/technology/Gunther_carbon_finance.fortune/

This Should All Sound Familiar

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:28:00 +0000

Global warming is the end of the world! The human race will become extinct!

Sound a bit extreme? Sound a bit familiar? It should, and not just because that's the rhetoric of our current day. Alarmists have been trying to scare us for 40 years about over-population, famine, and global cooling. None of them have come to pass. Check out this revealing recap:

http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080406/COMMENTARY/48905088/1012

Ottawa Snow: 14 Feet and Counting!

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:03:00 +0000

Ottawa is on the verge of breaking a snowfall record set back in the 1970-71 winter season as it has thus far accumulated 14 feet of snow! There have been four deaths due to roof cave-ins, reports of "snow rage" as neighbors battle for yard space to toss the snow, and one man has even created an 18 foot decorative wall next to his driveway. Go ahead and try to sell these people on "global warming."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/world/americas/31snow.html?ei=5065&en=36bdab2bb3f6d083&ex=1207540800&partner

Baghdad's First Snow!

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:37:00 +0000

I can't believe I missed this one, but my son was writing a paper tonight on the fallacies of the "hockey stick" graph and dug up an article from this past January on Baghdad's first snow fall ever recorded. Other sources say it has probably been about 100 years since Baghdad has seen snow, but no one is really certain. Considering how rare snow is in this part of the world, you would think someone somewhere along the 4,000 years civilization has been present in that part of the world would have made a note of it when it actually happened. In any case, I guess "global warming" doesn't apply to Iraq.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7183881.stm

Roy Spencer: Climate Confusion

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:40:00 +0000

Check out the new book from Roy Spencer about the global warming political machine.

NOAA's Results: Coolest Winter Since 2001

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), this past winter was the coolest since 2001. While that may have only been seven winters ago, according to the global warming alarmists we are supposed to be far above that level by now. In fact, since recording of national temperatures began in 1895, this was the 54th coolest winter, placing this past winter in the cooler half of cold winters, and some places like Concord, NH, received more than 100 inches of snow, blowing away records that had existed for more than 100 years.

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080313_coolest.html

So what happened to the drastically rising temperatures we were supposed to be seeing? That infamous "hockey stick" graph that was developed 20 years ago has come under fire for its inaccuracies and predictions of widespread tropical disease, severe drought, rapid melting of the world's glaciers and ice caps, and rising sea levels that simply haven't happened.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/COMMENTARY/702895001/home.html

Weather Channel Founder: Sue Al Gore!

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:46:00 +0000

John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, already stated that global warming is the biggest scam in history. Now he is suggesting Al Gore and everyone involved in selling carbon credits ought to be sued for the millions of dollars they have cost alarmed citizens. In a Fox & Friends interview, Coleman reiterated that the degree the world "warmed" up over the last century was obliterated this winter, record temperatures dropping us back down that degree.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/03/04/weather-channel-founder-sue-al-gore-expose-global-warming-fraud
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?030608/030408_ff_coleman&FOX_Friends&Climate%20Debate&acc&FOX%20%26%20Friends&-1&Shows&255&&&exp

Globe Cooling, Most Snow in 50 Years

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:45:00 +0000

Here are a couple articles that highlight our current temperate state. First of all, the four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have all released data that show a sharp drop in global temperatures over the past year. This is not a warming planet and is nowhere close to the anomaly of 1998.

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

Secondly, snow in North America, Siberia, Mongolia, and China is the greatest it has been since 1966. Toronto just blew away a snowfall record that has stood since 1950. Oh, and that melting ice cap -- it's actually 10 - 20 cm thicker than at this time last year!

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=332289

It's time to rid America of the global warming scam and get to more pressing issues at hand. Global warming can no longer be used as a valid political position because the position simply doesn't exist! Speaking of politics... you might get a kick out of this:

2007 Not the Swelter it Was Predicted

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:58:00 +0000

We've been getting inundated with all sorts of global warming rhetoric, about how we're going to be scorched off the face of this rock that's spinning around the sun. So what happened when 2007 was predicted to blow away the heat records set in 1998? It actually got colder.

This Boston Globe article is loaded with links to articles about the cold and wintery incidents it mentions:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/01/06/br_r_r_where_did_global_warming_go/

Global Warming = More Deaths? Not So.

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:00:00 +0000

So here's another global warming theory:

With the destabilization of the weather, we should be having more deaths due to weather-related incidents. Check again.

From 1990 - 2006, the time in which global warming is supposed to be at its height, weather-related deaths are down 87% compared to 1900 - 1989. So what's the next crazy claim we need to refute?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2983816.ece

Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History’

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:26:00 +0000

You just know there has to be something flukey about this whole global warming alarm if even the founder of the Weather Channel is calling it a scam:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/11/07/weather-channel-founder-global-warming-greatest-scam-history

Arson, Not Global Warming

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:20:00 +0000

Fire raging in southern California have forced, to this point, 365,000 people to evacuate their homes. While the 250,000 acres that have been burned are truly a tragedy, it hasn't stopped some lawmakers from making knee-jerk global warming accusations. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to point the finger at global warming and then later backed down on his comments.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/wildfires-get-personal-for-lawmakers-2007-10-24.html

However, the AP reports that police are making arrests in an arson investigation directly linked to the fires. A $70,000 reward is currently being offered for information in the case.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071025/D8SFUL0O0.html

By the way, efforts to thin forests and clean up underbrush in order to help prevent fires like this have been held up for years by environmentalists. Isn't it a bit ironic that their desire to save a few trees and retain a pure natural habitat has actually created more fuel for this fire to spread quickly and destroy 250,000 acres?

http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/23/wildfires-and-environmental-obstructionism/

Homeruns, 1998 vs. 1934, and Greenland

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:23:00 +0000

Homerun Weather

Homeruns are down all around baseball this year. While there were 11 players that hit more than 40 homeruns last year, only four are on pace this year -- and, overall, the entire league is on pace to hit 578 fewer homeruns than last year. So what does this have to do with global weather?

Some speculate that the COOLER weather this year may have something to do with it. From a recent ESPN article: "Lawson contends that offensive cycles generally span decades (the 1930s, '50s and '90s were particularly kind to hitters) and are related to climate changes. In a nutshell, hot, thinner air helps a baseball travel farther. Cool temperatures and denser air are a deterrent to offense."

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=crasnick_jerry&id=2973727

CYCLES. Cool temperatures. Recall the Cleveland-Seattle series that got SNOWED out earlier this year? Or that 64 degree game start temperature in Philadelphia on the 10th of August?

1934 vs. 1998

But I thought we were in the middle of a warming trend? What about all those charts that show temperatures skyrocketing over the next 20 some-odd years? Got me. 1998 was touted as the hottest year on record which means for the past ten years we've been beneath that peak. So that's not upward. However, it's come to light that 1998 wasn't the hottest year on record. That distinction actually belongs to 1934.

http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts/2007/08/guest_weblog_a_report_from_the.html
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20070813/COMMENTARY08/108130024/1012/commentary
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/246027

It interesting that the global warming activists have been so narrow-sighted. the 1930's were littered with scorching temperatures, droughts (recall the Dust Bowl?), and drastic weather shifts during the winter (these days that would be called "unpredictable" and a sure sign that warming was active).

http://kyky.essortment.com/dustbowl_rcmk.htm

And go figure that the 1930s are cited above as an active period for homeruns. What's actually a bit ironic is the fact that during the 20's and 30's there were journalists writing about global warming -- or whatever they may have called it back then. I wonder what they thought when the world didn't melt away. Maybe they forgot when WWII refocused their attention?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070814/NATION02/108140063

Greenland Trends

Perhaps the fears of our ancestors stemmed from reports of warming in Greenland, a trend that lasted from 1881 - 1955 -- you know, when there was the big craze for cross-country treks in SUVs. Temperatures in Greenland have actually been cooler since than during that time frame and, in fact, one report cited an increase in ice in Greenland's interior.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=175b568a-802a-23ad-4c69-9bdd978fb3cd

Gorey Dining

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:35:00 +0000

With a straight face he pours out his concern about our world. He sings you to sleep with lullabies about we need to take care of our environment and by doing so we must all make sacrifices. The film industry threw awards at him for his enlightenment.

Yeah, I'm talking about Al Gore. With his deepest sympathies he was regrettably unable to make a sacrifice and NOT serve an endangered fish at his daughter's wedding. The Chilean sea bass populations are on a steep decline and, according to the following article which describes the event, are nearing extinction; however, if you were a guest of the Gore's this past weekend then you found one seasoned on your dinner plate.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22090734-5001031,00.html

Nice follow-up to Live Earth, Al. What's next? Rotisserie bald eagles?

Memorial Day Cold Wave Overseas

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:19:00 +0000

When Memorial Day rolled around in the United States most parts of the country experienced nice, warm weather. However, other parts of the world weren't so fortunate.

How about snow in Germany? This is actually a follow-up on one of the snowiest winters ever in the Alps. In case you forgot, they've been recording weather there a bit longer than here in the US.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=458562&in_page_id=1811

Chile lived up to its homonymic name and was quite chilly... to the tune of sub-freezing temperatures. The result was a record demand for electricity as Chileans tried to keep warm.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20670001&refer=latin_america&sid=av0tvGQPKLKU

The Office of an Environmentalist

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:42:00 +0000

Recycle bins? Low-energy computer monitor? The idea of the paperless office finally put into practice?

Think again. Mr. Al Gore's office... and part of his contribution to his $30,000/year utility bill:

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2007/gore_life/20.jpg

ALARM! The World is Melting!

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Wed, 16 May 2007 13:42:00 +0000

Well, no, it's really not. However, for a 1-week period in 2005 some parts of Antarctica reached 41 degrees which, of course, will cause a little melting. You have to read between the lines on this one. "Antarctica has shown little to no warming in the recent past" -- yeah, well, what about the long past? Also, there has been NO melting there in the two years since this incident, which is a good term to call it. An anomaly.

http://www.livescience.com/environment/070515_antarctic_melt.html

Japan's oceans are in a sky-rocketing warming trend! Yeah, they use the word "fast" right there to describe 100 YEARS! And how much did it warm up by? A whole .7 to 1.6 degrees Celsius. Whew, that's a lot! Remember when we used to go ice fishing off the coast of Japan in 1907? Oh, and get this... "But the areas surveyed were so small that we cannot say the rise in the water's temperature has been caused entirely by global warming."

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUST27270120070515?feedType=RSS&rpc=22

Global Warming Frozen Out

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:47:00 +0000

This has happened a few times already this year. A global warming rally in Reno, NV, has been postponed due to... drum roll, please... cold, wet weather and sleet. This has been a fairly crazy April, weather-wise. An entire series between the Indians and Mariners got snowed out in Cleveland over Easter weekend. Yeah, that sounds, um, warm. Of course, global warming advocates will cite this "unpredictable" weather as a sign of global warming (snow is a sign of warming?). Funny... I recall a 21-inch overnight pile-up in April 1982, when I lived in Massachusetts. Snow and cold weather has happened in April before and it will happen again. It's a sign of... well, weather being weather.

Here's the link to the rally article:
http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070414/NEWS18/70414010/1002/NEWS

Warm Up With A Winter Recap

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:53:00 +0000

With all the global warming rhetoric that was tossed about this past year, here's a recap of the last few months.

Moose Migration. Why did the moose cross the road? Because it snowed a crap load in Alaska. Moose don't like deep snow and when deep snows hit Alaska they migrate to the cities where the snow is a little more shallow. 76 inches had already fallen halfway through the winter season. Alaskans aren't catching a tan anytime soon.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/31/tech/main2417996.shtml

Speaking of Alaska. I was in Anchorage during the 1994-1995 season in which the skies dumped the third highest snow total on Anchorage record: 121 inches. The fourth highest, 111, came in the 2003-2004 season. The other three highs amongst the Top 5 came during the 40's and 50's. Now watch this... the top two highs (132 and 128) came in consecutive seasons: 1954-1955 and 1955-1956. The Anchorage record low then came in 1957-1958 at 30 inches. Unpredictability. It's natural. It's why we scoff and laugh at weather men, remember? By the way, Anchorage hasn't had a snowfall crack the Top 5 low in 20 years, and that one is #5. The other four lows predate 1962. Here, check out the temperatures, too. Looks like 1953 was a scorcher. I guess humans just went and heated things up a bit after that ice age of a 1947 winter.
http://pafc.arh.noaa.gov/misc.php?page=climlist

Death Warmed Over. I'd love to see Al Gore with a straight face tell the families of those that died of freezing temperatures this winter that it's getting warmer outside.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250625,00.html

Sunny Oswego. At the time of this article, Oswego, New York had already racked up 70 inches of snow -- and it was still falling. I guess they were just shoveling sunshine. Do a little poking around and find out how much they got when it finally stopped.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250900,00.html

Polar Bears Not Lost At Sea. We've seen the picture, but do you know the context? We've been told that these are stranded polar bears near the polar ice cap. If you read through this site where the picture originated from three years ago, you'll discover that this was just off a main ice sheet that the polar bears deliberately swam to -- to play. Toss in the fact that this was also near the 71st parallel which is nowhere even close to the Arctic Circle, and it's quite plain to see the manipulation.
http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre/dispatch2004/dispatch02.html

Mr. Environment's $30,000 Utility Bill. While Al Gore is busy making all of us feel guilty for driving to work in the morning, what has he sacrificed with the $30,000 he racked up with his luxuries? Some do as I say, not as I do? Let's at least hope he saved a little paper and paid those bills online.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=5072659

Global Warming on Mars. Apparently, the Mars rovers are destroying the Martian atmosphere. Since they're man-made, Mars is warming up, and we all know global warming is due to human activity, perhaps we ought to scuttle any plans to explore any other planet -- ever.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/present/2003.html

Just Cool It. Inaccuracies. Imperfections. Technical flaws. Those are just a few words used by those in the scientific community that didn't agree with "An Inconvenient Truth." When Gore stated that the scientists that don't agree with him have been corrupted by industry, one stated, "I’ve never been paid a nickel by an oil company and I'm not a Republican."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13gore.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin

Frostbite Terminates Quest to Prove Global Warming

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Ricksecker) — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:09:00 +0000

It's a shame somebody had to get hurt in this whole sordid process, but here's a case in which an excursion to the North Pole to "prove" global warming cost the toes of one of the explorers. What's amazing is the concluding statement:

"They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming," Atwood said. "But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."

Considering they were actually planning to take a swim, what were they expecting? Sandy beaches and rolling hills of green meadows? And what's with this "unpredictability" stuff? How can you not predict freezing temperatures and frostbite conditions in the friggin' Arctic???

So... did this disprove global warming to them?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070312/ap_on_sc/polar_trek_1