AGW - so many humbugs, so little time!
It isn't about the Anthropic Global Warming because the globe isn't warming at the moment and even if it was, global warming/cooling is cyclical and driven by the Sun.
Since there isn't any. Really! So what would make all these scientists fudge data and change data? What would cause a systematic revamping of US and Canadian weather stations so that they read higher temps? Why would scientists develop a system of keeping track of North American temperatures that weeds out cooler readings and uses approximations for others? Take some time to investigate.
Let me give you a hint...what ryhmes with that old song (The Beatles throbbed hearts with their version, then Herb Alpert jazzed it up) A Taste Of Honey? From a Broadway play of the same name circa 1960 and recorded on the Please Please Me album by the Beatles before Herb and the boys made it into a hit. Okay, too much information.
What ryhmes with a taste of honey is The Smell Of Money!
Excerpt: "In 2001, a man was apparently working on a device (?) to make carbon trading possible. He filed a patent, then died. His wife onsold this patent application — to Franklin Raines, the CEO of … wait for it, Fannie Mae. The same CEO who has committed massive accounting fraud.
Now the story gets more slippery: In 2000 the Chicago Climate Exchange was helped to get started by the Joyce Foundation. It’s a charity set up years ago, that now manages around a billion in funds. Here’s how Beck tells it:
The Joyce Foundation is like the George Soros’ TIDES Foundation. In fact, it’s actually bigger than TIDES and even funds TIDES. Think of it as a place where uber-rich and powerful liberals like to dump their money into, so the cash can be spread around to their pet projects without a direct link.
There was one influential member on the board of the Joyce Foundation at the time the Chicago Climate Exchange got its seed money; someone instrumental in steering the funds towards the creation of the Chicago Climate Exchange. They were on the board from 1994-2002. The founder of the Chicago Climate Exchange, Richard Sandor, said that he “knew (this person) well,” which is perhaps how the money was awarded to the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where Sandor was a research professor. I’ll get back to that person in a minute.
Who could it be — that one influential member of the board, who was active in getting the CCX started? Apparently it was a man named Barack Obama.
And that patent application owned by the Fannie Mae CEO? It was finally approved by the patent office on Nov. 7, 2006. Coincidentally the day after the Democrats took control of Congress.
So now, Fannie Mae, who is congressionally mandated to “make housing more affordable,” is poised to reap billions on a system that has nothing to do with housing except for that it would make housing costs go up.
There’s more:"
You will hopefully read the whole thing. When you consider your votes in the coming elections, think about what is really behind everything the current administration is doing. It is either about becoming a Socialist Animal Farm or making lots of money or if they play it right? Both.
VAT tax? Cap and Trade? Immigration Reform? Puerto Rico? It's all like a newly rewritten version of The Sting. Guess who is getting the shaft? Oh, and when the government is hiring those jobs are a drag rather than a boost to the economy?
Just a little reality check. Work hard for your conservative candidates and do not fall prey to the lure of third party types. As a colleague recently said, "A vote for a (third party candidate in the Senate race) is half a vote for (The Democrat in the race)."
If your Senator or Representative votes for ANY kind of Cap and Trade/Tax then you know that they are:
- Stupid
- Crooked
- or Both
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Now if that Iceland volcano entirealphabetwich or whatever it is, if it is the start of a huge coming volcanic event then we could be in for some big-time COOLING!
The Year Without a Summer 1816
Caused by the 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia
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Krakatoa–Victorian Disaster
On April 10th 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia erupted and killed 10,000 people from the explosion and another 82,000 people from related causes such as starvation and disease. To date, Tambora is the world’s worst volcano disaster in recorded history. The mountain, which stood at 13,000 feet tall, was reduced by 4,000 feet and spewed 93 cubic miles of ash into the atmosphere.
Why There was no Summer in 1816
Because the explosion of Mount Tambora was very intense, the ash cloud reached the earth’s stratosphere which enabled it to be carried to other parts of the world. Because it takes time for the ash to circulate, it didn’t drastically affect weather patterns in distant places, such as the Northern Hemisphere, until 1816. The dust in the atmosphere caused less sunlight to pass through, thus causing unseasonably cold temperatures.
There were two other volcanoes that erupted in previous years, La Soufriere in Saint Vincent (1812) and Mayon in the Philippines (1814). Although these volcanoes were not as intense, there was existing dust in the atmosphere and Mount Tambora’s ash made it much worse.
In addition to volcanic activity, the sun was going through a period of low magnetic activity called the Dalton Minimum. Low magnetic activity reduces the number of bright spots on the sun making the sun slightly dimmer. When this occurs, the world experiences cooler temperatures.
The Summer of 1816 Around the World
Read more at Suite101: The Year Without a Summer 1816: Caused by the 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia http://volcanoes.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_year_without_a_summer_1816#ixzz0lSmwwO6D
Krakatoa–Victorian Disaster
It wasn’t the eruption itself that did the damage, it was the tsunami that ensued. It came slowly and killed approximately 40,000 people. We know that much of the island debris went into the air, but what didn’t go into the air slid into the ocean. Add the lava to it and the earthquake and, well and you get tsunami. Sadly, 2004 I don’t think there’s anyone who doesn’t know how an earthquake can result in that.
Still this all happened in a part of the world we rarely associate with the Victorian Era. I suspect many of our regular readers, though interested, might not see how it would affect their view of the era, either in writing or research about North America or Europe or even Australia. I sure never thought of it. But it did have a huge effect. For one thing the sound of the eruption could be heard 3000 miles away, all the way to Australia. The waves could be felt as far as France. But more than all that it was the effects of the millions of dust and materials that entered the air, eventually circling the entire planet.
One of the most vivid things the dust did was color the sky. Dust was thrown between 120,000 to 160,000 feet into the air, where the pull of gravity is so light it can stay up there for years. The refraction brought unusual colors to sunsets, which is reflected in the art of the period, and inspired poets. Tennyson particularly, in St. Telemachus, may have been inspired by how Krakatoa may have caused of the spectacular skies.
Had the fierce ashes of some fiery peak
Been hurl’d so high they ranged about the globe?
For day by day, thro’ many a blood-red eve,
In that four-hundredth summer after Christ,
The wrathful sunset glared against a cross
Rear’d on the tumbled ruins of an old fane
No longer sacred to the Sun, and flamed
On one huge slope beyond, where in his cave
It also spawned groups of scientific thought such as The Royal Society’s Krakatoa Committee which catalogue the effects starting to be seen around by the close of 1883. Additionally there were blue and sometimes green moons, along with occasional coronas around the sun and other planets in the solar system. The beauty of the skies, could also be disturbing, though. In Poughkeepsie New York, firefighters responded to a reported fire, which turned out only to be the “sky on fire” courtesy of dust from Krakatoa.
And then there was the temperature. It lowered for 5 years around the globe by as much as full degree. Scientists still ponder whether or not the dust lowered the earth’s temperature or if somehow the lowering temperature of the earth spawned the volcano. Personally the former seems to me most plausible. The 1815 explosion of Tambora appeared to be the cause of New England’s “year without a summer” in 1816, when frost and snow stay into June and July (Tambora was, incidentally, a larger eruption, but not part of our era).
That being the case, could Krakatoa be responsible for the blizzards in the late 1880’s , like New York City’s great Blizzard of 1888? http://lighteningstorms.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_great_blizzard_of_1888 ) Maybe the blizzard that hit Maryland in 1885 and 1889? Or perhaps the famous blizzards that ravaged the U.S’s Midwest in 1886-1887? If so, a volcanic eruption half way across the world, three years earlier could be responsible for the sudden ending of the cowboy Era in U.S. history, because so many ranches went under the spring of that year. But that’s fodder for another blog post. One way or another, Krakatoa effected lives around the world, from artists and poets, to the everyday man watching the sky for beauty—and snow.
Krakatoa, The Day the World Exploded, Simon Winchester
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Remember, any politician who votes for a cap and tax/cap and trade/emissions control bill of any kind is a humbug.