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Man-Made Global Cooling

A deep freeze in the United Kingdom and Europe has led to about 90 deaths and is continuing to cause travel chaos.

Heavy snows on the eastern US coast have accounted for at least seven deaths.

Yet the Copenhagen confab, which brought leaders in by private jet and limousine, has been disparaged for its failure to address the important issue of Man-Made Global Warming.  They were so close to gaining unprecedented control and subjugating individual freedom - and then the planet went into a cooling phase.

AlGore and his acolytes are revealed as crafty fear-mongers.

Geothermal Stikes Back

Often touted as the best "green energy" source because unlike wind and solar, geothermal is always on, companies have been scrambling to cash in.  In some areas, geothermal may work well - because in those areas, it's possible to use some fairly passive methods to extract energy.  In other areas, however - not so much.

LONDON (Dec. 18) -- The Obama administration has a lot riding on geothermal energy, which it sees as a future source of clean, green and virtually unlimited electricity. Over the past year alone, the U.S. Department of Energy has invested some $440 million in projects trying to turn heat trapped in bedrock deep underground into electricity. But the trial this week of a Swiss geologist – accused of causing earthquakes during the construction of a geothermal power plant – has raised doubts about the safety of some geothermal schemes, and may have contributed to the collapse of one government-backed project in California earlier this month.

Worries about the link between this new power source and earthquakes came to the fore in 2006, when the building of a geothermal plant in the Swiss city of Basel triggered a series of tremors. Although no one was injured, the quakes caused $9 million in damage and seriously shook the locals. On Tuesday, Swiss prosecutors opened their case against Markus Haering – head of Geothermal Explorers, the firm behind the project – who they accuse of deliberately causing landslides and damage to property.

It seems doubtful that Haering intended to cause so much damage, but the approach that his and other companies take nonetheless raises a few warning flags:  their method involves drilling several miles down, to superheated rock, then pumping water down the shaft.  The steam thus generated is used to spin tubines, creating safe, clean electricity which can be used to power trams, choo-choos, and other devices. 

It seems that there is a problem: the cold water fractures the rock, which is a good thing because it generates more steam.  It also appears to cause earthquakes.  AltaRock has received some $25 million in U.S. government funding to start a new project in Oregon, and the Energy Department is backing more than 120 geothermal initiatives across several states.

Fortunately, as we all know all too well, Oregon is a "leader" in green and sustainable policies.

America's Promise

Whoever thought the silliness would come to this?  Yet it has.  Strangely underreported in American media, the story appears under the headline: U.S. to Capture Cow Farts to Save the Planet

In the future, America will harness cow farts to curb pollution and power the grid. What? It sounds like a joke, but it's actually a real promise. By 2020, dairy industry emissions will be reduced by 25%, largely by persuading dairy farmers to capture methane gas, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced at the Copenhagen climate change summit this week. 

Vilsack calls his agreement with the dairy industry a move that "will help us achieve the ambitious goal of drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions while benefiting dairy farmers." He goes on to say that the harnessed emissions from one farm could power 200 homes.

Ambitious?  Folks, that "ambitious" plan would "capture" less than one-tenth of 1% of "emissions".  It's no wonder that the rest of the world is openly laughing at the USA, when the superpower has a president who bows to other leaders and who champions patently idiotic schemes to "Save The Planet".

In point of fact, the primary source of biologically generated methane on the planet comes not from cows, nor from horses, zebras, or deer:  it comes from termites - of which there are trillions covering most habitable areas of the planet.  While methane is a potent greenhouse gas - far more significant than, say, carbon dioxide - much of it is emitted by temites as they busily ingest and process cellulose.  If the Americans wish to limit the influence of methane, then, they should forget about cows.  Instead, they should come up with a way to capture the termites and fit each one with methane-collecting butt-plugs.  If such devices were produced with inflatable properties, then termites would float into the skies, where drones could be used to capture them and rapidly replace inflated butt-plugs with uninflated ones.

The collected inflated plugs could then be cycled through bio-digesters to produce electricity, while the termites themselves, newly outfitted, could simply be returned to the surface to begin the cycle anew.  What an elegant, "green", and "sustainable" solution!

Now, that would be truly worthy of an address before the Hopenchangen conference attendees.

Something's Rotten In Denmark

Much has been made within the blogosphere, and very occasionally, even in some of the media, regarding the CRU data dump.  AlGore has gone on record with abject lies; he's claimed in at least two interviews now that the emails and associated documents are irrelevant and outdated, and that the most recent email is a decade old.

Actually, the most recent missive included in the dump was dated November 12, 2009.

On October 5, 2009, Phil Jones was discussing data manipulation:  And the issue of with-holding data is still a hot potato, one that affects both you and Keith (and Mann). Yes, there are reasons -- but many *good* scientists appear to be unsympathetic to these. The trouble here is that with-holding data looks like hiding something, and hiding means (in some eyes) that it is bogus science that is being hidden.
I think Keith needs to be very, very careful in how he handles this.
I'd be willing to check over anything he puts together.

What many appear to be overlooking, however, is the significance as it applies to organizations well beyond CRU itself.  The IPCC itself is implicated in data manipulation schemes, as is NASA and others.  Moreover, it seems clear that thuggery is occurring not purely among the "scientists" involved, but has spread throughout the IPCC and the U.N.  Heck, at Hopenchangen just the other day, they have literally thrown unbelievers to the ground.  Apparently, when they say "the debate is over", they really mean it.

AlGore Demands Silence

Oh, what a tangled web they weave.

Primary Prophet of the New Religion, AlGore,  not only refused to answer questions regarding the recent revelations from the CRU document dump, but U.N. officials killed the microphone of the questioner.  This seems to be standard operating procedure for adherents to the Religion.  Those who claim that AGW is somehow based in science seem to lack a basic understanding of the fundamental principle:  science encourages questions.  Why would anybody who professes a love for science engage in repression?

Yet  AlGore and his minions would – if they could today – do exactly what earlier religious leaders did to Galileo.  Unfortunately for them, they can’t – so they engage in other repressive moves.  Clearly, they see their religion under attack, and just as clearly, what they push as science is anything but.

AlGore and his ilk will literally say anything, no matter how stupid, in order to preserve his ascendant religion.  And before the mikes got cut, their idiocy was on full display, before a global audience:

Speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, Mr Gore said new computer modelling suggests there is a 75 per cent chance of the entire polar ice cap melting during the summertime by 2014.

However, he faced embarrassment last night after Dr Wieslav Maslowski, the climatologist whose work the prediction was based on, refuted his claims.

If your mentor disputes the claims you attribute to him, you just might be an idiot.

Dead In Copenhagen. CO2 Suspected.

The great Copenhagen conference, intended to carry on the fight against man-made global warming, appears to have suddenly died.  At this point, reports of the disaster are conflicting, with some blaming a sudden surge in CO2 as a result of all of the private jets and limos, while others claim that in the enclosed space of the conference center, too many people were yelling at once - overloading the air handling systems, which resulted in localized warming events.

Save Energy, Even If It Kills you

In the effort to Save The Planet, municipalities are increasingly turning to light-emitting diodes (LED) to light up their traffic signals.  They use a lot less energy, so they should be perfect for this use.  In some applications, such as in southern Florida, they may perform well.  In other places, not so much.  It never pays to ignore the law - of unintended consequences.

Religion, Or Statism?

Michael Bellesiles is an anti-gun advocate who in 2000 published a book entitled "Arming America".  The Emory University professor quickly became the darling of the anti-gunners; he was awarded a prize by Columbia University, among other accolades.  For a couple of years, there, he was really hot spit.  There was a problem, however: when folks asked to see his data, he claimed that they'd been lost in a flood.  Fairly soon, it became clear that he'd simply made them up.

If any of the above scenario sounds familiar, there's a reason for it:  it's exactly what the AGW "scientists" have done.

Among scientists voicing concerns over the IPCC claim was Freeman Dyson, the eminent physicist and mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Dyson's voice was a reminder of Galileo's observation, "In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

In a lecture given at the American Physical Society meeting in March 1999, Dyson spoke about the science and politics of climate. He noted, "that the climate models on which so much effort is expended are unreliable."

Dyson explained the models "use fudge-factors rather than physics" and, besides "the general prevalence of fudge-factors," there were other specific defects adding to their unreliability.

Although the religious acolytes, such as local gadfly David Appell, scoff at the view of AGW skeptics that AGWis predominantly a method for expanding and enhancing governmental control, it is clearly nothing more - nor any less - than a coordinated marketing campaign geared toward that very end.  The several thousand documents dumped onto the internet demonstrate not only that Dyson was correct in his warnings a decade ago, but that many of the "scientists" involved in drafting the IPCC "report" upon which so much of the hysteria is based were happy to engage in subterfuge and outright fraud in order to advance their global agenda.

It must cause AlGore great chagrin to find that his religion has been exposed as a fraud through the very internet that he invented.

"Scientist" Calls For Armed Guards To Stop Questions

Dr. Stephen Schneider was holding a press conference in Copenhagen yesterday when a journalist had the temerity to ask forbidden questions.  Phelim McAleer began asking questions regarding files obtained from the CRU (what some are now referring to as climategate), and the good doctor became incensed.  Armed guards were called to confront McAleer and his cameraman, who was ordered to immediately stop filming.

Schneider has long coveted the spotlight; in 1978, he appeared in a television program warning  of the impending Ice Age.  When that failed to materialize, he became a fervent Warmer.  In recent years, he's become a close adviser to the Prophet AlGore.

Yet the questions are of great importance today, as the CRU documents clearly demonstrate fraud and intimidation in a concerted effort to give credence only to the "correct science".  In Copenhagen, several governments have expressed skepticism regarding the credibility of the computer models used to link global warming to human activity; even the U.N.'s top climate banana, Yvo de Boer, allows that the revelations are damaging.  And it's growing worse: investigations underway at CRU and Penn State show every sign of increasing in scope, the head of the CRU project has stepped down, and Penn State has been put on notice that funding may become an issue.  Tempers are flaring: one of the East Anglia academics resorted to callinga skeptic "an asshole" on a live BBC television interview.

The American Physical Society is in an uproar, with many of its members calling for a retraction of their 2007 statement which generally supported the AGW theology:  As previously reportedby CBSNews.com, Happer and other members of the APS have been urging the society to take a second look at the 2007 statement, which claims the evidence for the CO2-global warming link is "incontrovertible" and "we must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now." Their lettercirculated last month says: "By now everyone has heard of what has come to be known as ClimateGate, which was and is an international scientific fraud, the worst any of us have seen...

But hey, the science is settled.  The time for debate is past.

The Flat Earthers

Adherents to the Religion of Mann-Made Global Warming famously brook no disagreement nor debate.  AlGore has steadfastly refused to engage in any sort of debate on the subject, and his acolytes have fallen dutifully in line.  With the release of incriminating documents from the Warmers in recent days, the response has been unsurprising: they still won't discuss nor debate, but they have degenerated into talking trash.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has taken the route of many who would rather call names than have a serious debate about "climate change." He characterizes those who question "settled science" members of the "flat-earth" society. When people resort to name-calling it is a sign they have lost an argument.

The former presidential candidate said "the deniers are persisting in an era of unreality."

Yep, we're "deniers".  We're "flat-earthers".  We probably all believe in alien visitations, and have likely seen or smelled a Bigfoot.

Rather than engage in actual discourse, the principal players in this new religion find it safer to attempt to demonize unbelievers.  They can only do that because they fear that they may be losing a great opportunity to impose controls over the behavior of individuals, which is what their religion demands.

Just as fundamentalist Islam demands that all women wear the hajib, Warmers demand that all individuals dial down the heat, quit driving, and generally pay more for the privilege of living.

It's all about control - of you.  Meanwhile, AlGore jets around the globe, while The Bama maintains temperatures warm enough to grow orchids in the Oval Office.