Global Warming News n Views

Kevin Rudd’s taking climate change seriously was one of many ways he differentiated Labor from the Coalition in the recent election.

Henry and his editor get belted from time to time by the last of the climate change hold-outs, who nowadays hold their meetings in telephone boxes.? The precautionary principle does not do it for these climate change deniers.? Refugees from the Age of Aquarius, any cost is too much cost, it seems, and bugger the next generation.

But hark!? An attack from the left.? Clive Hamilton has lashed out for Crikey!? Lashed out at Australia’s most saintly, fair-minded and public spirited economist, Professor Ross Garnaut. Hamilton’s charming headline is “Garnaut loses the plot”.

Just what is the relevant “plot”?? The best summary I can find is Hamilton’s article is: “… he has come up with a radical solution. Let’s have one target, a carbon budget aimed at a 60 per cent cut by 2050

It’s not too late to get involved in what organizers are calling an unprecedented U.S.-wide teach-in focused on solutions to global warming.

Organized by “Focus the Nation,” the teach-in — scheduled to culminate on Thursday, Jan. 31 — aims to get millions of students, teachers, people of faith and other citizens together in various locations to discuss just one topic: how Americans can start tackling climate change now.

A project of the Green House Network that’s being directed by Eban Goodstein, an economics professor at Lewis and Clark College, Focus the Nation set out to sign up 1,000 colleges and universities across the U.S. for the teach-in. Organizers have more than met that goal, with 1,600-plus organizations planning to participate as of Tuesday, Jan. 29: from the University of Alaska, Anchorage, to Western Wyoming Community College.

Human caused Global warming is one of the more controversial issues facing the world today.? It potentially can effect the survival of the human race as we know it, or depending on the rightness or wrongness of the theory, could affect our life as to the amount of government control it might initiate, exercised on everything we can or cannot do.? The best scenario would be that human caused Global warming does not take place.?

But if it is truly occurring, then we must do every thing we can to stem the trend if for no other reason than simply to save the human race.? If it’s not already too late.? In 2002 an iceberg the size of Rhode Island broke off the Antarctic Ice shelf opening up water that has been frozen over for the past 12,000 years.? Is this a sign of human caused Global Warming, or is this just a natural occurrence of Nature that has happened countless times in the ageless past?

When provided with continuous nourishment, trees, like people, grow complacent.

Tree-ring scientists use the word to describe trees like those on the floor of the Colorado River Valley, whose roots tap into thick reservoirs of moist soil. Complacent trees aren’t much use for learning about climate history, because they pack on wide new rings of wood even in dry years. To find trees that feel the same climatic pulses as the river, trees whose rings widen and narrow from year to year with the river itself, scientists have to climb up the steep, rocky slopes above the valley and look for gnarled, ugly trees, the kind that loggers ignore. For some reason such “sensitive” trees seem to live longer than the complacent ones. “Maybe you can get too much of a good thing,” says Dave Meko.

Have you read the book titled, ” Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years“? We have read it and reviewed it so you can get some facts before reading it.

First of all, this book makes for some easy reading. It is well documented and fairly short, so researching points that are brought up in the book is very easy to do. The authors, Dennis Avery and Fred Singer, craft the notion that global temperatures are on the rise due to a natural cycle. The book’s purpose is to take the blame off of mankind, and apply it to a cyclical force of nature occurring every 1500 years that is unstoppable.

The authors claim that global warming is not dangerous, explain why it is that temperatures are warming, and tell the reader that global warming can not be stopped.

Remember the panicked warnings of melting icecaps, drowning polar bears, 20? rises in sea levels, and all the other moronic rhetoric parroted by the pseudo intellectual left? Those are morphing from warning of a planetary increase in temperatures to the generic term “climate change”. This is so that when episodes of snow in Southern California and record low temperatures in other parts of the globe occur, they can be included in the chicken little “the sky is falling” hysteria propagated by the lunatics that previously warned of global warming (and before that a new ice age). But ask yourself why?

I know why. Global climate change is an ever occurring natural phenomenon created by increases and decreases in solar activity not as High Priest Al Gore of the Church of Global Warming of Modern Day Idiots (MDI) would have you believe - carbon dioxide.

WASHINGTON — Global warming could reduce how many hurricanes hit the United States, according to a new federal study that clashes with other research. The new study is the latest in a contentious scientific debate over how man-made global warming may affect the intensity and number of hurricanes.

In it, researchers link warming waters, especially in the Indian and Pacific oceans, to increased vertical wind shear in the Atlantic Ocean near the United States. Wind shear?– a change in wind speed or direction?– makes it hard for hurricanes to form, strengthen and stay alive.

So that means “global warming may decrease the likelihood of hurricanes making landfall in the United States,” according to researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Miami Lab and the University of Miami.

Wang said he based his study on observations instead of computer models and records of landfall hurricanes through more than 100 years.

Most Canadians tell pollsters they’re concerned about climate change. Many insist they’d like to do something about it, and would even pay for measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

But propose actual cash amounts – 25 cents a litre on gasoline, perhaps, or a $10 daily commuter toll – and support evaporates.

“Once you put a price on it, people tend to think twice about it and say, `Maybe not,’” says Mario Canseco of Angus Reid Strategies, which surveyed about 3,700 Canadians on the issue last March.