The Padded Cell

Yes folks! You heard it right! National Geographic, or Nat Geo, which they like to call themselves now, has a show about a new human species which existed in pre-history, and mingled with Homo Sapiens/Cro-Magnon.

This new species is called "Neandrethal", which is eerily similar to the familiar "Neanderthal", just a subtle difference in spelling, and presumably in genetic makeup.

What?

No way!

You're not serious.

You mean they put out an advertisement in which the voiceover announcer mis-pronounced "Neanderthal" every time he said it??? NO ONE in the prodction process had the brains, or the balls, to say "Hey, wait a minute, he's not pronouncing that properly." Or more likely they just didn't care. Maybe they didn't want to hurt the guy's feelings, I don't know. I wonder if he can pronounce "nuclear", or "peripheral".

Idiots

Revenant

Link: How not to measure temperature, part 71: NOAA neglect of volunteer observers

Originally Posted at Watts Up With That?

The post at the link above is just one of many dealing with the horrendous condition of a great many of the official USHCN temperature measuring stations. The "scientists" and activists who would have you believe humans are causing global warming rely on data from these stations to preach their alarmism.

The real kicker is, they don't seem to care they're using useless data! This is simply astounding. Really, I'm at a loss for the proper words, though the term fraud does come to mind. Or perhaps it's just gross negligence. I'd vote for both. The REAL fraud comes from NASA and the Hockey Team, you know, those "scientists" who came up with and support the "hockey stick" temperature reconstruction showing a fairly flat global temperature for the last 1000 years, with a sharp increase during the last 100 or so years. This "hockey stick" has played prominently in the IPCC reports since the very first. My next post will outline the fraud that is the "hockey stick".

In the meantime, write your congressmen and make them aware of this fraud being perpetrated upon the world. They might be democrats or republicans, but that shouldn't matter, you need to make them listen.

Revenant

So I'm watching Scrubs, a comedy show about doctors on Comedy Central. And the real asshole doctor is giving the old black nurse shit about believing in god and her "everything happens for a reason" bullshit. And of course she gets the last laugh. Her explanation for believing in god, after seeing children die and bad things happening to good people, is that if she didn't believe there was a reason for it, she wouldn't be able to cope with life.

So, the moral of the story is, religious people can't deal with reality. I realize it was a comedy show, but it's a theme that's been repeated on so many shows it's not even funny.

That's why some people believe, others are just stupid. And yet others pretend to believe in order to scam true believers.

Polar Defense Project Deletes The Tough Questions

Originally posted at Watts Up With That.

It's funny. The concept of Global Warming caused by human industrial CO2 activity has a huge following. Countries have been making fiscal policy based on this chimera for a number of years now, yet the evidence just hasn't materialized. Al Gore will tell you "the science is settled", David Suzuki will want to put you in jail for crimes against humanity for denying what he believes, yet there's no evidence that CO2 is driving anything related to climate.

There are plenty of hypotheses, pseudo theories, falsified data (Mann and Hansen, et al), and hyperbole (Hollywood activists, Al Gore, David Suzuki, Greenpeace, WWF, ad nauseum, ad infinitum). But where are the facts? Where is the smoking gun?

There are actually things that humans do which affect regional weather and climate, such as land use changes, soot deposition, etc, but there just isn't any proof that the small amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is capable of driving anything. All of the ice core and borehole data proxies show that CO2 almost always follows temperature, whether it's rising or falling. Sometimes temperature will rise while CO2 falls, and vice versa. There just isn't a causal link established by any stretch of the imagination, at least no rational person's imagination.

Of course, people will say "What about the melting ice caps? Are you blind??" Well, this story is a perfect example of how little we know (or how little journalists and activists know), and how soon we forget. We've lost our long-term memory, like we've received a collective blow to the head. Which is why I've decided to start calling AGW proponents "Climate Amnesiacs". They look at a very small snapshot in time, call anything that happens "unprecedented", and declare a catastrophe.

Which brings us to this story. Anthony Watts very eloquently and succinctly shows us that the Pugh "mission" was a farce from the beginning. None of the claims made by the PDF or Pugh are true. It was a publicity stunt, nothing more, and an abject failure.

We know there has been less Arctic sea ice in the relatively recent past than there is now. We know global temperatures have been higher in the more distant past than now (Medieval Warm Period, Roman Warm Period, etc). We also know that the average global climate over the last few million years has been that of Ice Ages, or Glacials. The Interglacials, one of which we're experiencing now, are relatively short. We shouldn't worry about a few tenths of a degree of warming, if it's really even "unprecedented", but we SHOULD GREATLY worry about the next ice age. We know it's going to happen, we just don't know when.

By allowing environMENTALists to de-industrialize us back to the stone age we will be woefully unprepared for even small drops in temperature, as the recent plunge has shown those whose blinders aren't on.

Lest you come to the opinion that I'm against any kind of conservation or environmental awareness, I am not. I'm all for renewable energy sources, as long as they're done practically and rationally, not shoehorned into place when they aren't ready and can't handle the load. If you think CO2 is bad, can you imagine what trillions of solar panels and wind turbines would do to the Earth's albedo and wind patterns? Now THAT would be Anthropogenic Climate Change.

Revenant

Expert called in amid fears for O' Connell Bridge

Sunday, 31 August 2008

Concerns are being expressed about the future of Dublin's O'Connell Bridge.

An independent expert has been called in to examine the landmark over fears it is falling apart because of global warming.

Dublin City Council insists the bridge is structurally sound after routine repairs last week.

The National Conservation and Heritage Group believe higher tides caused by climate change are eroding the bridge's structure and may have dangerously weakened its foundations.

That's the entire text of the article. It's hard to just quote part of it without posting a vast majority.

So this is what passes for journalism in Ireland? All I see is a fear mongering, gratuitous statement without corroboration.

Who's the "expert"? Where is a link to a study showing significantly rising tides?

This is really all there is to the "Climate Change" hype, no substance, only fear mongering and money-making.