A Climate Crisis A La Gore
This week I conclude my interview with Paul Spite, author of A Climate Crisis a la Gore.
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G.W. Denier over at Global Shamming points out a couple of recent weather-related articles on recent cold snaps across the country.  Pendleton, Oregon had a record low of 22 degrees Saturday morning, which broke the 118 year-old record of 24.  And California’s grape country is in trouble due to the recent cold snap.  The cold temperatures fortunately did little damage to the grapes in Mendocino County, but farmers there are worried after having taken huge losses this year.  If global warming doesn’t kick in soon, grape farmers may have to …

Now this is only a regional effect experienced in one particular month, so I can’t say this means global warming is over. However, if Ireland had experienced the warmest September in 14 years, I’m sure global warming activists everywhere would be using it as definitive proof that the world is warming. Anyway, the temperature across the country never rose above 20 degrees anywhere - which is a first in 30 years. Average monthly air temperatures were about a half-degree below normal.
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The next time a global warming activist vehemently denies there ever being a scientific consensus on global cooling, just point them to an article from the New York Times dated January 30, 1961.  The article, entitled SCIENTISTS AGREE WORLD IS COLDER; But Climate Experts Meeting Here Fail to Agree on Reasons for Change, reported on a unanimous agreement among scientists on several continents that the world was, indeed, getting cooler.  Humans were not blamed for climate change in the article, although greenhouse gas emissions were mentioned but it was determined …

(Via Endiana).  Earlier this year I wrote about state legislators in California wanting to control your home thermostat to ensure the end of rolling blackouts.  Today, you get a glimpse inside what it’s like to live in a country where thermostats are controlled by the government.  This piece from the Moscow Times discusses at length what people do to stay warm when it’s cold outside and while they wait for their government to turn on the heat.  During an early cold spell in Moscow, residents in city-controlled dwellings are spending …

I guess this is why global warming has been renamed to climate change.  More rain has been predicted as a consequence of climate change.  James Bruce, a Canadian climate change expert, says that rain events may double in Canada around the end of the century and that changes in the environment are more disastrous than that predicted by the IPCC.  I suppose the 9% increase in Arctic ice this year, the Antarctic ice growing over the last 20 years, record snowfall and cold temperatures in places around the world last …

Crank up the carbon-emitting vehicles and head down the road for some greenhouse gas-spewing fun, all in the name of saving an endangered species. Cold water has separated the endangered Australian grey nurse shark populations on the continent’s east and west coast but rising ocean temperatures, thanks to global warming, will allow the two groups to join and reduce the chance of an extinction. We can’t possibly enact legislation to stop global warming now. We could kill off the last remaining grey nurse sharks.
Read More: www.abc.net

(Via Planck Time).  The province of Durban in South Africa experienced the coldest September night in recorded history this past weekend as snow blanketed the area and some woke up to temperatures around zero degrees Celsius.  Electrical service was lost to parts of the region.
Read More: www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=14&art_id=vn20080921084615870C810928

By James Nash
A recent poll of 530 climatologists in 27 countries showed 34.7 percent of interviewees endorsed the notion that a substantial part of the current global warming trend - which might see temperatures rise by a degree or two, on average, by century ’s end - is caused by man ’s industrial activities: driving cars and the like.
More than a fifth - 20.5 percent - rejected this “anthropogenic hypothesis.” Half were undecided. The skeptics now include the 85 climate experts who signed the 1995 Leipzig Declaration; the …

What a load of **** by the climate change activists.  The coldest Australian August in 35 years, and coldest in Sydney for 60 years, is now being considered a symptom of global warming.  WWF spokesperson Paul Toni said that the freezing temperatures are proof of the urgent need to cut carbon pollution.  I guess we’re down to blaming any weather system on global warming.
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