Al Gore, Inconvenient Truth the Sequel

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The Global Warming Myth?

The End Is Not Near -- Instead of Panicking Over Climate Change, Learn to Adjust to It

John Stossel is up to it again, ABC News last remaining skeptic is again debunking an other myth. If he keeps this up he will be bounced to the street by his bosses, that know there is money to be made in panicking there viewers.

Here is a small piece.

Lawyers from the Natural Resources Defense Council (another environmental group with more lawyers than scientists) warn that "sea levels will rise, flooding coastal areas. Heat waves will be more frequent and more intense. Droughts and wildfires will occur more often."

Wow.

But many scientists laugh at the panic.

Dr. John Christy, professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Alabama at Huntsville said: "I remember as a college student at the first Earth Day being told it was a certainty that by the year 2000, the world would be starving and out of energy. Such doomsday prophecies grabbed headlines, but have proven to be completely false." "Similar pronouncements today about catastrophes due to human-induced climate change," he continued, "sound all too familiar and all too exaggerated to me as someone who actually produces and analyzes climate information."

Here is a Google video of Dr. Michael Crichton talking with Charlie Rose. Dr. Crichton is one of the most understandable critics of the theory of global warming. The interview is promoting his newest book “Next” and the problems with genetic research, but Dr. Crichton does answer questions about global warming about 22 minutes in.

Al Gore “Ugly American”

"Al Gore condemned Canada's new plan to reduce greenhouse gases, saying it was "a complete and total fraud" because it lacks specifics and gives industry a way to actually increase emissions."

I hate it when other world leaders condemn the U.S. Thanks Al for reinforcing the idea of the ugly American.

Nuclear power will save the world form Global Warming

Leading scientists are today expected to back a major expansion of nuclear power as a way of saving the world from global warming.

Dr. William Gray Speaks Out

THE United States' leading hurricane forecaster says global ocean currents, not human-produced carbon dioxide, are responsible for global warming.

William Gray, a Colorado State University researcher, also said the Earth may begin to cool on its own in five to 10 years.

Speaking to a group of Republican MPs, Dr Gray had harsh words for researchers and politicians who said man-made greenhouse gases were responsible for global warming.

"They are blaming it all on humans, which is crazy," he said.

"We're not the cause of it."

Dr Gray said in the past 40 years the number of serious hurricanes making landfall on the US Atlantic coast had declined even though carbon dioxide levels had risen.

He said increasing levels of carbon dioxide would not produce more, or stronger, hurricanes.

Dr Gray, 77, has long criticised the theory that heat-trapping gases generated by human activity are causing the world to warm.

Earlier this month, he dubbed former US vice-president and 2000 Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore "a gross alarmist" for making the Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which helped focus media attention on global warming.

Yesterday, Dr Gray said that politics and research into global warming had created "almost an industry" that had frightened the public and overwhelmed dissenting voices.

He said research arguing that humans were causing global warming was "mush" based on unreliable computer models that could not possibly take into account the hundreds of factors that influenced the weather.

He said little-understood ocean currents were behind a decades-long warming cycle, and disputed assertions that greenhouse gases could raise global temperatures as much as some scientists predicted.

"There's no way that doubling CO2 is going to cause that amount of warming," he said.

Dr Gray also said warming and cooling trends could not go on indefinitely and believed temperatures were beginning to level out after a very warm year in 1998.

Do carbon offsets provide a false sense of security?

This is from the gristmill blog, they are a bunch of believers in global warming, but they seem to be having a understandable discussion of carbon offsets. Check it out and see how the true believers view carbon offsets.

Carbon Neutral through Carbon Offsets

"Also, a largely unregulated carbon-cutting business has sprung up. In this market, consultants or companies estimate a person’s or company’s output of greenhouse gases. Then, these businesses sell “offsets,” which pay for projects elsewhere that void or sop up an equal amount of emissions — say, by planting trees or, as one new company proposes, fertilizing the ocean so algae can pull the gas out of the air. Recent counts by Business Week magazine and several environmental watchdog groups tally the trade in offsets at more than $100 million a year and growing blazingly fast.

But is the carbon-neutral movement just a gimmick?

On this, environmentalists aren’t neutral, and they don’t agree. Some believe it helps build support, but others argue that these purchases don’t accomplish anything meaningful — other than giving someone a slightly better feeling (or greener reputation) after buying a 6,000-square-foot house or passing the million-mile mark in a frequent-flier program. In fact, to many environmentalists, the carbon-neutral campaign is a sign of the times — easy on the sacrifice and big on the consumerism."

Carbon Offsets, More Fraud?

A sign of potential fraud in the carbon offset market, British airline EasyJet has delayed the lunch of it carbon offsetting scheme. The reasoning for this delay is they have found that the carbon offset market is riddled with “snake oil salesmen”.

“Toby Nicol, EasyJet's communications director, said the company had been shocked by how much money carbon offsetting firms wanted for their service.”We have been quite surprised at the percentage that the offsetting companies would like to take out of the scheme for administration costs. Between 25% and 30% of every pound put in by consumers would go into administrating the company and that was simply too expensive," he said.

There are a lot of people who have dived into the market who are desperate to make a margin from it. There are too many snake oil salesmen in the business.”

Has EasyJet given up on the carbon offsetting market? No, EasyJet is going to buy UN-backed carbon credits on the open market at about 7.50 British pounds per ton, with a launch date sometime this summer. Lets be honest here, the UN's past is a bit checkered, with the Iraq oil for food program as its chief example of out of control fraud. Can EasyJet trust that the UN backed offsets will be any more effective?

Credit Card Environmentalism

There is a hint in this article at an other problem with carbon offsets, that this is just credit card environmentalism. Carbon offsets allow the rich to buy off there indulgences, rather then change they behavior.

“Low-budget airlines in particular have been targeted by environmentalists because they have driven a boom in air travel. The environment minister Ian Pearson labeled Ryanair the "irresponsible face of capitalism" this year after the airline criticized the European emissions trading scheme.”

Targeting the low cost airlines shows that the cost of saving the planet will be born by those on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder.

Carbon Offsets

This article in the International Herald Tribune, opinion page talks about carbon offsets. It covers the pluses and minuses of purchasing carbon offsets:

“But is the carbon-neutral movement just a gimmick?

On this, environmentalists aren't neutral, and they don't agree. Some believe it helps build support, but others argue that these purchases don't accomplish anything meaningful — other than giving someone a slightly better feeling (or greener reputation) after buying a 6,000-square-foot house or passing the million-mile mark in a frequent-flier program. In fact, to many environmentalists, the carbon-neutral campaign is a sign of the times — easy on the sacrifice and big on the consumerism.”

A summary of the article is this is an unregulated industry and it is unlikely that every carbon offset purchased is removing the CO2 that it claims.

Climate Change on Mars

NASA says that the Mars has warmed about 0.5C since 1970. That is about the amount of what the earth has risen over the same time frame. I guess the CO2 from my neighbors SUV has finely made to the planet Mars. Now his CO2 is causing a massive climate change on the red planet.

Have to point out that one researcher thinks that this is due to strong winds.

Carbon Offsets Checkbook Environmentalism?

Carbon Offsets could be a $100 million dollar market in the U.S. alone. From this article published in Business Week it looks like most carbon offset are either ineffective of fraudulent

Business Week uses TeraPass Inc., (the supplier of carbon offsets to the Academy Awards) project in Springdale Ark as an example of the ineffectiveness of the carbon offset market. This project in a sprawling garbage dump in the Ozark foothills captures methane gas, that as a greenhouse gas is over 20 more power full then CO2. This gas is then burned and converted into CO2 which is far better then methane in the atmosphere. The problem with this project is its effect as a carbon offset is that this project would have happed with or with out the TeraPass Money. I the end TeraPass money is just a supplemental revenue to the owners of the dump Waste management.

Methane and Global Warming

Fart Cops

It looks like the EU is look at the affects of cow farts on Global Warming. This is from the belief that live stock is a greater threat to the planet then transportation emissions.

Is methane produced by livestock (cows and hogs) a problem? Studies have shown that methane is 21 times greater impact as a greenhouse gas then CO2. In North America we have about 100 million cows, millions of hogs, and more then 2 billion chickens, we have the potential of billions of tons of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gasses being emitted each year

Looking for ways to reduce methane emissions from livestock Canadian authors Karin Wittinberg and Dinah Boadi conducted a study on this subject found 20 different way to reduce methane and nitrous oxide emissions. Some ideas are:

• Grinding and pelleting the can reduce methane by 20 – 40%
• Allow the grazing in high quality alfalfa can reduce methane by 50%
• Changing pastures every few day
• Add 4% canola oil to feedlot cattle rations

The authors showed that there ideas can have a measurable impact on reducing green house gases for little increase in cost to the consumer. This would be preferable the draconian changes proposed by global warming supporters.

At least Al Gore is not alone

An other example of do as I say not as I do. Last night Democrat debate all participating candidates arrived by private jet. This is not how you reduce CO2 to save the planet, this flight was roughly 1,700 miles and the CO2 Emissions for each candidate was 794lbs or a total of 6,352lbs. This was determined by using TerraPass flight calculator.

I have no doubt that all the republicans candidates will also fly by private jet and some of them have bent over to kiss the global warming extremists buts, should know that continued use of private jet make them look just as hypocritical as last night Democrats candidates did.

More on Carbon Trading Fraud

Al Gore is looking to cash in on carbon trading. His profiteering on Global Warming looks to be able to turn him into a billionaire.