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Twisting Tornados into Climate Crises

As usual, Viv tells it like it is as climate hype comes under closer scrutiny. GC.Ed.@L.

Already the climatists are spinning a carbon scare story out of the Oklahoma tornado. US Senator Barbara Boxer said in a speech on global warming, just one day after the Moore tornado: “You’re going to have tornadoes and all the rest.  . . . Carbon could cost us the planet.”

There is nothing unusual about tornadoes in Tornado Alley on the Prairies, or hurricanes in the Caribbean, or cyclones in the Coral Sea – all have been creating extreme weather events long before Europeans arrived in these areas and long before the surge of industrial growth in the 1950’s.

Despite the intensity of the news reports, the severity of US tornadoes is not increasing – there have been many US tornadoes with greater severity and more fatalities than the Moore tornado. One in 1935 resulted in 695 deaths in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.  What is increasing is the population density in the threatened areas and the demand by some media outlets for a man-made climate scare every week.

Tornado strikes, vultures gather

Andrew Bolt talks about the Oklahoma Tornado and Global Warming in today's blog.

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THE IPCC SHOULD BE ABOLISHED

An interesting piece that articulates the view that the IPCC should be abolished. 

Read More: http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/the-ipcc-should-be-abolished.html

Green Religious Principles

Jim McCrudden resurects the spectre of Bob Brown who is thought to be visiting his "fellow eartheans" from his intergalactic perch somewhere in outer reaches of the universe. GC.Ed.@L.

Professor Bron Taylor, Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Religion, himself a devoted Green, coined the idea that the Green movement is a religion. It has beliefs and practices, characterized by a basic belief that “nature is sacred, has intrinsic value, and is therefore due reverent care.”

He believes that this green religion possesses many of the characteristics of established religions, sacred texts (books like ‘Walden’), prophets (like Henry David Thoreau, Tim Flannery and Rachael Carson), rituals (like “soul surfers” meeting the ocean at dawn) and radical “eco-terrorists” (along the lines of Jihadists.)

Which explains a lot, and why evidence, or even common sense, can’t be driven into Greens’ heads with a supercharged, trillion volt,  atomic powered, diamond tipped nail gun – they are religious zealots.
Even the fact that the global warming models have more holes in them than Bonnie and Clyde does not penetrate their steel carapaces.

They have a sacred day – Earth Day – when they sit in the dark for an hour and reflect on the mystery of how climate change can cause blizzards and floods and icemelt while at the very same time it can cause bushfires and droughts and ice growth.

They have a set of beliefs known as the Green Creed, modelled after Christian Creeds.

900+ Peer reviewed climate sceptical papers

Something to share with our AGW friends when they arc up about there being no peer reviewed literature on the climate sceptics position.

Read More: http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html

Attempts to cut CO2 are futile – and expensive

An Interesting article regarding the Carbon boogey man. Watch for the reference to Australia. 

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Ram Rudd not sheepish

The Inaugural Golden Fleece Award – for Flagrant Fleecing of Community Resources

The Carbon Sense Coalition has awarded its Inaugural Golden Fleece Award to Kevin Rudd and coal industry leaders for “flagrant fleecing of community savings in futile ‘research’ on Carbon Capture & Sequestration – a costly and complex process designed to capture and bury carbon dioxide gas produced by burning carbon fuels such as coal, oil and gas”.

It is obviously possible, in an engineering sense, to collect, separate, compress, pump and pipe gases, so new “research” is largely a waste of money. Engineers know how to do these things, and their likely costs. But only foolish green zealots would think of spending billions to bury a harmless, invisible, life-supporting gas in hopes of cooling the climate some time in the century ahead.

About 2.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide are produced for every tonne of coal burnt in a power station. To capture, compress and bury it could take at least 30% of the electricity produced, greatly increasing the cost of the limited amount of electricity left for sale - more coal used, increased electricity costs, for ZERO measurable benefits.

We have come to expect stupidity from politicians, but coal industry leaders who agreed to waste money on this should be sued by shareholders for negligence. Maybe they were just drooling at all the extra coal they would sell in order to produce the same electricity?

Let the truth be told

Just twelve months after a joint letter signed by 49 former scientists & NASA astronauts (attached) taking issue with one of their own, pioneer of climate science and Head of The Goddard Institute For Institute of Space Studies (GISS) for many years, controversial James Hansen, has finally departed NASA after some 46 years, albeit it seems, to continue his past unscientific activist activities as here.

Hansen testified before U.S. Congress in 1988 and announced that the planet was beginning to feel the effects of man-made global warming. He's been a vocal activist and avid researcher on the subject since.

Is this a sign of the times with others of Hansen’s ilk to follow in his footsteps as global temperatures refuse to cooperate with Climate Alarmist doom and gloom prognostications despite increasing levels of CO2?

Read more:http://au.businessinsider.com/NASA-SCIENTISTS-DISPUTE-CLIMATE-CHANGE-2012-4

(Thanks reader Jim)