Looks like being "Green" is getting a little dangerous. Could you get arrested for plugging in your phone at a public building? Well, a man in Georgia was arrested after he plugged in his Nissan Leaf and was charged with âtheft of powerâ from the city. And how much power did he steal? $.05 from NBC: A Georgia man found himself in handcuffs after charging his electric car outside a middle school where his son was playing tennis in what police alleged was unlawful âtheftâ of county power worth roughly five cents. Kaveh Kamooneh, of Decatur, said he was attending a Saturday morning tennis practice session for his 11-year-old son on Nov. 2 when he plugged in his electric car at a power outlet outside Chamblee Middle School... http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/69346142214/youll-never-believe-why-georgia-cops-arrested-this
Global-warming âproofâ is evaporating http://nypost.com/2013/12/05/global-warming-proof-is-evaporating/ The 2013 hurricane season just ended as one of the five quietest years since 1960. But donât expect anyone who pointed to last yearâs hurricanes as âproofâ of the need to act against global warming to apologize; the warmists donât work that way. Warmist claims of a severe increase in hurricane activity go back to 2005 and Hurricane Katrina. The cover of Al Goreâs 2009 book, âOur Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis,â even features a satellite image of the globe with four major hurricanes superimposed. Yet the evidence to the contrary was there all along. Back in 2005 I and others reviewed the entire hurricane record, which goes back over a century, and found no increase of any kind. Yes, we sometimes get bad storms â but no more frequently now than in the past. The advocates simply ignored that evidence â then repeated their false claims after Hurricane Sandy last year. And the media play along. For example, it somehow wasnât front-page news that committed believers in man-made global warming recently admitted thereâs been no surface global warming for well over a decade and maybe none for decades more. Nor did we see warmists conceding that their explanation is essentially a confession that the previous warming may not have been man-made at all. That admission came in a new paper by prominent warmists in the peer-reviewed journal Climate Dynamics. They not only conceded that average global surface temperatures stopped warming a full 15 years ago, but that this âpauseâ could extend into the 2030s. Mind you, the term âpauseâ is misleading in the extreme: Unless and until it resumes again, itâs just a âstop.â You donât say a bullet-ridden body âpausedâ breathing. Remarkably, that stoppage has practically been a state secret. Just five years ago, the head of the International Panel on Climate Change, the group most associated with âprovingâ that global warming is man-made and has horrific potential consequences, told Congress that Earth is running a âfeverâ thatâs âapt to get much worse.â Yet he and IPCC knew the warming had stopped a decade earlier. Those who pointed this out, including yours truly, were labeled âdenialists.â Yet the IPCC itself finally admitted the âpauseâ in its latest report. The single most damning aspect of the âpauseâ is that, because it has occurred when âgreenhouse gasesâ have been pouring into the atmosphere at record levels, it shows at the very least that something natural is at play here. The warmists suggest that natural factors have âsuppressedâ the warming temporarily, but thatâs just a guess: The fact is, they have nothing like the understanding of the climate that they claimed (and their many models that all showed future warming mean nothing, since they all used essentially the same false information). If Ma Nature caused the âpause,â canât this same lady be responsible for the warming observed earlier? You bet! Fact is, the earth was cooling and warming long before so-called GHGs could have been a factor. A warm spell ushered in the Viking Age, and many scientists believe recent warming was merely a recovery from whatâs called âthe Little Ice Ageâ that began around 1300. Yet none of this unsettles the rush to kill debate. The Los Angeles Times has even announced that it will no longer print letters to the editor questioning man-made global warming. Had the Times been printing before Columbus, perhaps it would have banned letters saying the Earth was round. Meanwhile, the Obama administration continues to push to reduce supposed global-warming emissions. Last month, the president even signed an executive order establishing a Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience that could dramatically expand government bureaucratsâ ability to restrict Americansâ use of their property, water and energy to reduce so-called âgreenhouse gas emissions.â Such attempted reductions in other countries have proved incredibly expensive, while barely reducing emissions. But damn the stubbornly weak economy, says President Obama, full speed ahead! This, even as new data show that last year the US median wage hit its lowest level since 1998 and long-term unemployment is almost the highest ever. People have a right to religious and cult beliefs within reason. But the warmists have been proved wrong time and again, each time reacting with little more than pictures of forlorn polar bears on ice floes and trying to shut down the opposition. (More bad timing: Arctic ice increased by almost a third this past year, while that at the South Pole was thicker and wider than itâs been in 35 years.) In war and in science, the bloodiest conflicts always seem to be the religious ones. Time for the American public to say itâs no longer going to play the victim in this one.
Well I know you like simple terms. No surprise there. No I am not a hypocrite and nothing that you so insanely pasted shows otherwise. Potty mouth? Shit, you have me there. Sorry if I offended your delicate senses. It is the stupidity and attacks by others that prompt such talk.
Jem you are so gullible and delusional. To get the delta they are using.... "globally averaged well-mixed marine boundary layer CO2 data". In other words they are measuring the CO2 levels at the surface of the oceans and are measuring, among other things, the biological effect on the CO2 level and varying annual uptake of the oceans. We are not interested in the CO2 levels at the surface of the ocean. That is not the CO2 that is able to cause a greenhouse effect. We are interested in the CO2 levels measured high in the troposphere like this one below. There is not even any annual variation of CO2 levels to even compare to a variation in temps. You are so fucking dumb and gullible to believe the shit you read on these fake climate sites funded by The Heritage Foundation and other similar fossil fuel interests. Jem, keep reading the above until it sinks in. The paper is just another irrelevent red herring piece of bullshit from the denialist machine.
You are a deceptive slick lying ass troll. Just making up any lie to protect you big govt world view. They used NOAA CO2 data set. ------ ------------ Here is a quote from page 52 of a pdf of the subject payer. Note - Figure 1 is the chart I showed you with green line on it. "Global monthly CO2 data (NOAA) are available from January 1980, and is shown graphically in Fig. 1, along with the monthly global sea surface temperature (HadSST2) and the monthly global surface air temperature (HadCRUT3), using data published by the University of East Anglia and the Hadley Centre, UK. In addition, in the present study we also analyze global air temperature data from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in USA, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in USA, and lower troposphere temperature data published by the University of Alabama (UAH), Huntsville, USA. At the end of the paper a list of URL's used to obtain the data used can be found. All these monthly data series are now sufficiently long to have collected a population of climate perturbations, and they are therefore likely to reveal essentials of the coupling between atmospheric CO2 and temperature in modern time. Here is the link . CO2 globally averaged marine surface data (accessed March 11, 2012): ftp://ftp.cmdl. noaa.gov/ccg/co2/trends/co2_mm_gl.txt
So if you read something in the Rupert Murdoch's NY Post's editorial section and you assume it's correct? I presume just the opposite and this article reaffirms why. Some questions for you gwb that address all the points in this piece of propaganda article. If you please. Do you think that one year means anything significant when looking at climate trends? Did you know that hurricanes have gotten stronger as the waters have gotten warmer although they have not gotten more numerous as some scientists thought. Do you think the earth has stopped warming over the last 17 years? Do you think that because past climate changes were natural, it means that man made climate change is not possible now? Do you think that there is a tremendous amount of fossil fuel money at stake and a concerted and well funded campaign to fight GW by spreading disinformation, deception and outright fraud about GW ? Similar to what the Tobacco companies did? Do they tie it in with neo-Libertarianism by melding corporate rights with those of individuals? Are the Koch bros and Rupert Murdoch the sugar daddies of the Tea Party? Why? Do you think that the Koch bros are against any government enterprise that would either inhibit their business profits or increase their taxes? Please think carefully about these questions as their answers are important.
Yes, to protect my big government world view. Wow you are nuts. And funny you should mention deceptive lying-ass troll. You learned to do it so well. What part of marine boundary layer Co2 levels do you not understand? The levels of CO2 at the surface of the ocean are NOT RELEVANT . That they are from NOAA is also irrelevant. Let me repeat to make it easier for you. The levels of CO2 at the surface of the water have ZERO to do with the greenhouse effect of the atmosphere as a whole. So regardless of what else this study shows, it is not relevant to the earth's greenhouse effect. It's a poorly done irrelevant piece of smoke and mirrors. The simple fact which you still don't understand but maybe one day you will is that CO2 is a greenhouse gas and we raised levels by 40% over the last two hundred years.
This the only CO2/ temperature relationship that matters. Anything else is noise. There is no significant variation in rate of change to even correlate a shorter term temp change with.