Bringing Morality

 

The environment was in the news again today. That is not new, but what is new, is that the pope has stepped up, wearing his scientific hat, and proclaimed that we must collectively put an end to anthropogenic climate change, a.k.a. global warming. You can read the article here.

What I find fascinating, no, make that predictable, is the response he is getting from the generally liberal media. They are praising his words and thoughts. "He is putting 'morality' into the climate change issue", as if the pope had a corner on morality and there were no moral issues already present in the ongoing debate.

Is it not interesting that this man is suddenly given credibility when in the past he and his church were denigrated for their stance on abortion? Was he not putting morality into that issue? And how about the issue of the sanctity of marriage? Was he not denigrated for his old fashioned views? As I see it, he has been given token respect, but his views, even though they are becoming quite liberalized, are still demonized because society in general is becoming more averse to religion in any form.

Most recently, he got a lot of publicity by stating that capitalism is the bane of the world and the wealthy should share, in order to alleviate poverty. Nobody took him to task on the fact that the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church is the wealthiest entity on the face of the globe, and as a church, whose mandate it is, to help those less fortunate, is hording its wealth as never before.

 

We are certainly getting mixed messages from our media outlets. What I would like to see is a bit of consistency in those messages.

It's About Time

There is a climate conference in Durban next month and Canada will announce that it is pulling out of the very out-dated Kyoto Protocol. The previous governments never put a viable plan in place to meet emission goals so it is now impossible to meet the deadline on carbon emissions. There are other countries on-side with us. Our biggest objection will be that some very large 'developing' nations are not required to come on board and all the responsibility will fall on the richest nations of the world. These developing nations are China, India, and Brazil, three of the  largest power houses in the world economy today.

When the Kyoto agreement was first proposed it was said then that the author, Maurice Strong (sad to say a Canadian) had one goal in mind with the whole global warming movement, and that was to redistribute the wealth of the world. That, my friend, is called world socialism, the last thing we need. Apart from that, the idea of anthropogenic climate change is being seriously challenged these days. The media is slow to pick up on it, but the movement among scientists is growing. Why throw billions at a dubious theory when there are much more pressing issues in the world.  

Are We Afraid?

The Federal Government recently commissioned a report by the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy to tell us what the impact of climate change will be. They looked at several different scenarios ranging from high immigration with accompanied economic growth, to low immigration with a stagnant economy. The costs range from $21B per year by 2020, to $91B per year by 2050. It seems that the biggest expenses will come from increased forest devastation, flooding due to rising ocean levels, and increased health care cost due to poor air quality in the excessive heat.

This is all pure conjecture. For example, the rise in ocean levels was predicted to have started already, yet there is no evidence.

What really irks me is that there is no mention of the possibility that costs will be offset by advantages of a warming trend. (note that there is no longer talk of 'Global Warming', but only climate change) Here are three economic advantages of  a rise in overall temperatures in Canada.

1. A longer tourist season.

2. Better and more food crops due to a longer growing season.

3. Reduced heating fuel consumption and costs and thus reduced emissions, thus reduced pollution, thus reduced greenhouse gases, which will in turn cause less heating of the atmosphere. (Which will cause a cooling trend, which will bring us back to a cold Canadian climate.)

Do you see how convoluted it can get when studies are based on pure conjecture and computer models? When the sunspot activity returns to normal levels, and the ocean currents once again find their equilibrium, we will be fine. The problem is the 'Climate Change Industry' will not leave this alone. It is a Goose who laid a golden egg and they will do all they can to perpetuate fear and uncertainty. For the government to use our tax money to commission a study such as this, in a time when the economy is shrinking and the money could be better spent elsewhere, is reprehensible.  

Cold

Thursday morning I thought I had slept in. When I awoke, it was very bright in the room, but the alarm had not yet gone off. I got up to check the time and then split the blinds to get a shocking view. The snow was coming down in huge clumps and there was a blanket of it on everything. That explained the brightness, but does not explain Global Warming.  :)

True to form, Blogger is acting up again. It has now tilted a photo of mine on its side. Don't bother putting your neck out, it is just a bunch of trees with snow falling .... in April. This has happened before, but the last time, at least the Daffodils were up to collect a layer of the white stuff. Friday morning it was -2C at 7:30am. I checked my calendar, again.

By the time the snow squall passed, we had an accumulation of about an inch. It took most of the day for it to melt, even though the sun peeked out for a while. Late Friday there were still little mounds of snow in the shady areas. If man-made carbon really does cause Global Warming, we should all consider pumping a bit more up into the atmosphere. We are missing Spring altogether.  

Cancun Madness

While Europe is in the throes of a wild and cold winter, this years Global Warming summit is being held in Cancun. Well, of course. Don't you remember last year's fiasco in Copenhagen, when winter trumped the fear mongering of rising temperatures. 'Chicken Little' of "the sky is falling" fame has been found out. They are running straight to exactly what they are warning us all about, warm climates. They don't like the cold any more than you and I so they have joined the tens of thousands of sun seekers on the beaches of Cancun. At least they will not be snowed on this time.

The world leaders are 'on to them' also. They are staying away in droves. Not only that, their delegates are shunning any kind of agreement. The jig is up. We have all heard enough fear mongering while vast money making industries pop up like mushrooms around each fear. SARS, Bird Flu, H1N1, coastal cities being covered in 20 ft. walls of water due to melting ice. 

When it turned into a religion, complete with 'believers' and 'deniers', they lost me. When only evidence that supported the fear was discussed, they lost me. 'Climategate' during last year's summit was the last straw. 

But, the diehards will continue to push for carbon trading, carbon taxes, reduced carbon footprints, and propaganda will be pushed to new heights. It will cost us all dearly, with the result being that God will still be the only one who controls the weather. Oh, the arrogance of man!   

Mixed Messages

Results came out yesterday, regarding a very recent poll of Canadians, questioning causes of Global Warming, assuming there is such a thing. There was no indication as to what the question was, but I must assume that it was a leading question because the results of polling over 1,000 Canadians is that Global Warming is caused by consumerism. The logic here, I presume, is that consumerism drives industry and industry creates green house gases,  and green house gases cause global warming. Lots of presumption here. 

When Maurice Strong, a socialist Canadian, first proposed the Kyoto accord in Brazil many years ago, critics stated that the real agenda behind the scheme was a redistribution of the world's wealth. 

Fast forward to just a few days ago. German economist Ottmar Edenhofer, an IPCC official, said in an interview, that "climate policy has almost nothing to do with environmental protection. The next world summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world's resources will be negotiated" 

Do you believe in a conspiracy theory here? On this -12 November morning, with a wind chill factor of -17, I tend to believe this is so.    

The Next Big Scare

Do you get the feeling that the AGW (anthropogenic global warming) scare has run its course. There seem to be more and more people and articles speaking out and questioning the so called settled science. There was 'Climategate', a fiasco of a climate conference in Copenhagen, the debunking of shrinking glaciers in the Himalayas, the coldest winter in Europe in decades, record snowfalls in Korea, a snow covered UK, and ice on the oranges in Florida. The movement is losing its credibility.

If you have been reading my rants on this blog, you know that I believe the whole thing is about a socialist agenda to re-distribute the wealth of the world. You simply have to read the agreement that came out of Copenhagen to this quite clearly.

So if the AGW is losing its legs, does the agenda then fail. Well, it must continue and it will do this by creating a new scare. It is now testing the media to see which of a number of new ideas will fly. Here they are in order of importance according to the IPC. (Yes, the UN is always behind these kinds of things because the UN is an agent of unrest against the wealthy countries of the world) Here are the new scares coming to a newspaper near you, and possibly a theater too when Al Gore can get his mind unwrapped from the disappearing Polar Bears and the 16 foot increases in ocean levels.

1. The most threatening green house gas of them all N2O ( Nitrous Oxide a.k.a laughing gas) I'm serious! Actually, it will destroy the Ozone layer. Remember the Ozone layer, the one that continually deteriorates and then repairs itself? Sure you do.

2. The smothering of the planet in plastic. I guess that warning on the bag is not only for young children.

3. A decrease in Oxygen in the atmosphere. Apparently during the days of the dinosaurs there was more oxygen around.

When these options have been test driven, you will be seeing one of them replacing the failed AGW.

If you want a really interesting read, go here.

Clarity?

St. Stephen's Tower and Big Ben in the snow, taken from Westminster Bridge

According to what we read here, there is yet hope for clarity in this climate change confusion.

We Need More Greenhouse Gases, Now!

Tropical Ice Sculpture courtesy of Flikr.com

What do you think of when you conjure up images of Central America? Heat, humidity, tropical temperatures, ceiling fans swirling lazily in hot room, warm rain, and perhaps humming air conditioners? Read this from my cousin whose daughter lives in Guatemala.

Be on alert for intense cold in Guatemalalunes, 11 de enero de 2010Monday, January 11, 2010The National Coordination of Disaster Reduction has placed a "yellow" alert for the intense cold in almost all of Guatemala. The cold will get worse over the next few days.Sacatepéquez, Quetzaltenango, Quiché, Totonicapán, San Marcos, Huehuetenango, Sololá, Alta Verapaz y esta capital, éste de la municipalidad.For the people that have very low resources (housing etc), this organization will open 15 shelters in various places. (as listed above)According to the National Institute of weather, the temperatures will descend even more on Monday and Tuesday, and may begin to rise on Thursday.For the moment, the city of Guatemala "woke up" this morning with a temperature of 8 degrees. (46 F)They are estimating that for the regions that are 3000 meters above sea level, temperatures will be below zero.----------------------------------------------------------------------*This may not mean much for many of you, but please remember to pray for the Guatemala people. Many of which live in shacks and very poor housing facilities. And there are also a lot of people that live on the streets. There is NO heating in the houses and the wind usually blows between the gaps between the windows and the walls. It is COLD!

Help us, Al Gore, we are confused!

Last Laugh

This is the other barn at the end of Marshall Road Extension

Today, more evidence for climate change, but not the kind we are supposed to fear. Maybe a little more carbon in the atmosphere would rectify things.

My friend from the UK tells me that it is snowing there again with no let up in sight. "The coldest winter in 30 years" they are saying. They are not equipped with salt nor snow plows and things kind of grind to halt there as roads get slippery and snow covered. A news report on the TV says that there are not too many groceries left in some stores, whether a result of hoarding or poor transportation is a guess.

The Des Moines paper reports 30 degrees below normal temperatures.

Seoul, South Korea, has just received more snow than it has had in the last 70 years! And there was no global warming 70 years ago!

Those Russian scientists I blogged about a while back, the ones who studied sun spots, predicted another ice age and that was at the height of the all the global warming fear mongering. Look who might get the last laugh.

Brainwashing

The climate change conference in Copenhagen has been in the news almost everyday and perhaps now we can move on to other things. But first, one last kick at the cat, so to speak.

My news email notification this morning (Saturday) read: " A new global climate deal has been approved at the UN climate summit in Denmark.The so-called Copenhagen Accord offers money to developing nations to help them fight global warming. However, the deal is not binding, and does not set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions."

It is a very telling statement. The majority of the delegates at this conference were socialist left leaning folks and they have seen this new industry as an ideal platform for destabilizing capitalism, giving government more control, and re-distributing the wealth of the world. Can you believe for one minute that a carbon reduction grant to the Prime Minister of Uganda is going to help reduce green house gases?

The sad part is that our youth are being brainwashed in school, the media is almost 100% on board, and dissenters are not being allowed to voice their opinions. Don't be fooled by this. There has never been consensus on the fundamental issues, not even within the IPCC. There is still much disagreement among the leading scientists of the world about 1. The data regarding the premise that the world is warming ("Climategate" showed us that there is a concerted attempt to cook the books on this most basic of tenets of climate change) 2. The big question of whether or not man plays any roll in the changes the climate goes through. 3. If we do effect the climate, to what extent? 4. What really is a greenhouse gas? 5. The end result of warming. 6. What are the solutions, if man is really responsible.

Dialogue in all 6 of these areas is discouraged! Can you believe that the potentially greatest threat to mankind of all time is not allowed to be discussed?

My thinking is that it is an elaborate hoax that is working beyond Maurice Strong's, Al Gore's and David Suzuki's wildest imaginations. My prediction is that in 5 to 10 years, it will fall apart and be seen as the one of the greatest lies ever perpetrated on mankind. Because the motivations are so varied, there have been many special interest groups jumping on the band wagon, hoping that their agenda will be fulfilled. (Greens, socialists, greedy entrepreneurs, and even anarchists)

And finally, oh the sweet irony again! Yesterday, as Obama was returning to Washington from the conference, there was a severe snowstorm hitting the capital. He could not take his gas guzzling helicopter to the White House, but had to use the slippery icy roads. I sincerely hope it gave him pause for some thought and some common sense, but I doubt it. He is "one of the above".

Hundreds Gather to Protest Global Warming

Dontcha' Love It?

Didn't we just have a conference on how to save ourselves from a planet that is overheating??


This, on this morning's news.


Meanwhile, subzero temperatures shut down the Eurostar train service between Britain and France, overnight, stranding 2,000 travellers in the tunnel under the English Channel.
Passengers finally arrived in London 10 hours late after being stuck on board trains overnight with no heat or electricity and dwindling supplies of food and water. Many of them were evacuated on foot through tunnels, while diesel trains pushed the Eurostar trains back into stations. Train service is suspended and the service isn't expected to resume for a few days.
Hundreds of flights for Saturday and Sunday have been cancelled across Europe due to expected overnight snowstorms.
Up to 30 per cent of flights scheduled to depart from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris have been cancelled, and Montenegro's main airport near Podgorica was completely closed due to snow and reduced visibility.
Britons were cleaning up from a rare snowfall which left up to 15 cm of snow on the ground Friday. England usually sees wet winters, and rarely gets snow.

Oh The Irony!

A climate agreement in Copenhagen is not an easy thing to achieve. Months of talks and negotiations have preceded the conference on climate change, and now the leaders of the most important countries in the world are weighing in, and still, there is no agreement in sight. Hilary Clinton is putting $1 Trillion on the table to influence the weather. Government can achieve great things, but can they really bring us better weather? "Today's moderately warm and dry day brought to you by the US government" is not a headline you will ever read.
The 16,000 attendees at the conference were not able to generate enough hot air to prevent 4 inches of snow and below freezing temperatures in Copenhagen, which, by the way, has not had a white Christmas in 14 years. My friend Michael, in England sent me a photo of the snow they had yesterday, extremely rare for this time of year. It is snowing in Paris today, and I can't help but think that God is snubbing his nose at all these brilliant people who think they can control his creation.
But, I am sure that Al Gore would tell you that cooling is part of warming.

Update: Late today an agreement was arrived at. Basically, it is an agreement to re-distribute the wealth of the world. It has little to do with climate change. Will China, for example, be transparent in its attempts to cut carbon emissions? Highly doubtful. There will be cap and trade and carbon credits so in effect there will not only be a re-distribution of the wealth of the world, but also a re-distribution of the carbon of the world, not a reduction. These people need to read some of the literature on the facts and fallacy of what a green house gas really is and whether carbon dioxide fits the description. It is picked on because it is something that involves every one's life and can be controlled through price. Ultimately, we will lose our freedom over it. And the climate will continue to change.

Timing

Somebody is up to tricks to help out the beleaguered Climate conference in Copenhagen. Glaciologist Neil Young had discovered a massive iceberg 1700 kilometers off the coast of Australia. Using satellite photos, he has determined the size to be 19 kilometers long and 8 kilometers wide. This is scary and must be the result of Global warming, no? But hang on for just a minute. Upon closer inspection, this massive iceberg has been around for a while, a long while. It was the year 2000 when it was first seen to break off, or calve, from the Antarctic ice shelf. It poses no threat and is indeed one of many such icebergs that break off every thirty years or so. These Global warming people are getting desperate for stunts that will scare us all into believing that we humans are causing changes to our climate, which, by the way, has been changing since it was created. This is just business as usual.

Warmer Weather Coming

This climate conference in Copenhagen is fun to watch. The statement today is that this coming decade will be one of the warmest 5 decades in the last 160 years. This means that there were 4 other decades that were either just as warm, warmer, or slightly cooler. We do not know where the coming decade fits in because it is, so far, just a prediction. If they had to go back 160 years to get a top 5 decade, that would mean that one of the decades was 160 years ago. Now, tell me. Was there man made green house gases causing that warm decade? There were no internal combustion engines and a much smaller population, and yet it was global warming under the definition. Why are we causing it now, but did not cause it then? Just asking.
You will also note that the 'Climate Gate' leaked documents concerning the hi-jacked emails that make the science look manipulated, is now focused on as a smear campaign. The real issue is the contents of the emails and this is not being addressed. They do not know how to handle this. They are like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar and they all know it. This hoax has gone far enough.

Are You Afraid Yet?

The climate people in Copenhagen are bandying about all sorts of weather statistics today in an attempt to put fear into the world leaders that if something is not done, we will all surely perish. It is interesting that they have temperature records that date back to 1850, however, when they want to come up with hard evidence of global temperature increases, they resort to only records from 1900 to present day. And are you ready for this? The increase since then is .7 degrees Celsius. What would the figure had been if the records were included from 1850 to 1900? And while this talk of trends is going on, there is no talk of what is actually causing this other than an increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, of course, only the CO2 that man has put there. There needs to be a dialogue on various theories of climate change, not just one mantra that talks about carbon dioxide. Oh, there is concern alright, mainly about the rising sea levels when all the ice melts. They talk of this being a possibility and that being a likelihood but if you check out the sea levels, there have been no changes at all since this very 'significant' increase in temperature. Don't cancel your trip to the Maldives just yet. (The country with the lowest elevation that is surrounded by water.)

And try this little experiment. Fill a glass with ice cubes and then top it off with water, right to the brim. Now just let it sit and melt at room temperature. Does the water run over the top of the glass as the ice melts? 'Nuff said.

Climate Conference

How embarrassing it must be for all those important delegates at today's Climate Conference in Copenhagen. They burned up all that fuel to get from the far corners of the earth to the conference. They are spending a lot of time doing damage control over the "climate gate" affair which saw some nasty emails discovered last week that implicated some university climatologists in manipulating data to fit the theory of anthropogenic global warming. And as I shiver in the -6C temperatures of this night, I am reading about the temperature trends for the last six years which are actually cooling. Funny how when important people get an idea in their heads, they can't seem to let go. Kind of like Darwinists.

I Can See My Breath

"What happened to global warming?" asks a headline at the BBC. Folks in the Rockies are shivering. "Western Montana breaks records," says a report. Missoula reported a low of 8 degrees yesterday...14 degrees lower than the previous record for this early in the season. Nearby Idaho had heavy snow last week too. Same thing in New Zealand, where roads were blocked by heavy snow. In New Zealand, two major North Island highways remain closed after unseasonal heavy snow days stranded motorists for two nights. "Even if this was the middle of winter this is extreme," said an analyst. And right now, it's spring in NZ. They had a spring snowstorm that put their winter snowstorms to shame."Forget global warming," says old friend Jim Davidson. "Get ready for another ice age." Buy Brazil, he advises; the cold will drive down farm output in North America and Europe. As the BBC reports, worldwide temperatures are not increasing; they've been falling for the last 10 years. No one knows why. Global warming enthusiasts say the trend is still towards higher temperatures. Their opponents say the world is actually beginning a major period of cooling - driven by solar activity, not by man-made carbon emissions.Who's right? We get out our mittens and wait to find out.

That was Bill Bonner's take on Global warming today. I might add to that the fact there were 17 low temperature records broken in BC within the last few days. Those of you who have been following my blog for a while now, know that I have been repeating this message for the last number of years and I am sticking to it. It must be awfully embarrassing for people like Al Gore and David Suzuki these days. I believe that one day they will recant, through chattering teeth.

More Taxes

Sunday is supposed to be a relaxing and restful day, but I could not keep quiet any longer. This has been bugging me for several days now and one of the purposes of a blog is to get things off one's chest. I am actually writing this on Saturday night so by tomorrow (Sunday) I will be calm and restful once again.
Did you notice it? The anniversary of our wonderful carbon tax on fossil fuels was on Canada Day. Also, the tax jumped 50%. Did you know that? Do you know what this tax is supposed to accomplish? Do think it is a wise tax? (Wow, is that an oxymoron or what?)
Here is the deal. The whole idea of a carbon tax is to eliminate carbon and is based on a few premises, the first being that carbon is harmful. The second premise is that because we cannot afford to buy the gasoline and heating fuel, we will stop doing so.
I will start with the last one first. We will always need fuel, at least until there is a readily available and viable alternative to power our need to transport and be transported. As for heating, we will always need to be warm. It is called survival.
The first premise is faulty on several fronts. The theory is that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and we as humans are producing too much of it. Carbon dioxide is actually a necessary and natural component of the atmosphere and is not harmful. But this is again based on a premise, and that is, that man is causing climate change by pumping too much carbon into the atmosphere. The body of science that is disagreeing with this theory is growing. It is still an on going debate, and yet we are being taxed to save the world.
Our government's own data says that the carbon tax will result in a reduction of .oo27% of greenhouse gases. Now that is what I call a poor bang for the buck, especially when it is not even certain that it is the carbon that is causing climate change.
The best defense of this tax this week was that the pine beetle devastation needs to be stopped. That statement assumes that the pine beetle is thriving because we are driving our cars. This is ridiculous.
I was listening to a national talk radio program this morning and it was on the topic of global warming and what is causing it, if indeed it is a reality. The host of the program has not heard from one single scientist on the anthropogenic side that has come forward to debate with the many scientists he has had on his program who refute man-made climate change. I think it is because they do not have a leg to stand on.
But keep on taxing us and soon our gas pumps will look like the one in the above photo, sitting derelict and rusting, while we walk in the heat and wait for the sunspots to return so our climate goes back to normal, if indeed what we are experiencing is not normal. I think it is.