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Wacky Global Warming News: Himalayan Glaciers Part 3

Jan 25

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Climbers and Sherpas traversing Himalayan Glacier

Climbers and Sherpas traversing Himalayan Glacier

People sometimes don’t believe it when I say that this wacky Global Warming thing isn’t what they think.  Most people believe that scientists are completely objective and are warning us of impending doom.  They also think that people like Al Gore are just out to save us from ourselves and couldn’t possibly have any evil motives.  They think scientists and rotund ex-Vice-Presidents would never lie.  Wrong, wrong, and wrong.  What’s the latest evidence?  How about a damning admission by a “scientist” authoring the UN’s Nobel Peace Prize winning 2007 climate change report?  That’s what happened.

Dr. Murari Lal, the scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035  admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders. In other words, he knew the information was faulty but still included it to get politicians to fix a non-existent problem.  He didn’t say that he was hoping the politicians would give him more grant money in order to do more “research” but he didn’t not say it either.

Global Warming, particularly anthropogenic global warming, is a hoax that is meant to take away your freedom and your money.  Legislation to “combat the effects of climate change” like the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill (H.R. 2454) will increase energy costs and taxes while doing nothing for the environment.  Tell your Representatives and Senators we don’t need Cap and Trade.

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Wacky Global Warming News: Himalayan Glaciers Part 2
Wacky Global Warming News: Himalayan Glaciers

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Wacky Global Warming News: Himalayan Glaciers Part 2

Jan 25

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The whole “the world is melting because of CO2″ Global Warming thing is pretty wacky.  Remember the entry about Himalayan Glaciers melting by 2035?  Well, it turns out there’s more to the story than just one scientist’s speculation being used by other scientists too lazy to check sources.  You guessed it.  There’s more mistakes about the Himalayan glaciers in the same 2007 report.  You know, the report that resulted in a Nobel Peace Prize for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Global Warming doomsayer Al Gore.

In addition to the lie about the glaciers melting by 2035, they also say the total area of Himalayan glaciers “will likely shrink from the present 500,000 to 100,000 square kilometers by the year 2035”. Ha!  Another lie, there are only 33,000 square kilometers of glaciers in the Himalayas.  Also, the report claims the Pindari Glacier shrank by 2,840m — a rate of 135.2m a year. The actual rate of shrinkage when the lies are discarded is only 23.5m a year.  All of this has finally been admitted by the head of the IPCC Dr Rajendra Pachauri, who dismissed calls for his resignation.

Global Warming is a lie.  A scam that politicians are using to separate you from your money and freedom through needless taxes and regulation.  Don’t let them do it.

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Wacky Global Warming News: Himalayan Glaciers

Jan 21

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A warning that “climate change” (code for Global Warming) will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 turns out to be total crap based on scientific blunders.  A couple of years ago an agency of the United Nations issued a report supposedly based on the very latest scientific research into the horrors of Global Warming.  It turns out that the estimate of Himalayan glacial melt was based on an 8 year old article in a science journal that even the author admits was “speculation”.  Speculation?  Is speculation the “settled science” Al Gore refers to, or is speculation really just a “guess: a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence”?

None of this is a surprise really since the whole Chicken Little view of the climate appears to have been developed based on competition for grant money and recognition rather than actual science.  Scientists of the World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown.

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More Crap From Al Gore – Interior Of Earth Several Million Degrees

Nov 19

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Apparently Al Gore, non-inventor of the internet, believes that the lyrics to the song “Walkin’ On The Sun” by the group Smashmouth could be part of his global warming slide show.  Why would I say that?  Well, I base it on the former second-banana’s segment on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.  When O’Brien asked if geothermal energy was really viable Gore replied:

It definitely is, and it’s a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy – when they think about it at all – in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, ’cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot…

Wow, I never knew we all lived on a STAR.  What?  We don’t live on a star?  But Mr. Global Warming said the Earth’s core is “several million degrees” and he must be right because he’s a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Oscar winner.  Doesn’t that mean he knows more than anyone else?  No.

I think I was in 5th grade science class when I was told the core of the earth is several thousand degrees.  My science teacher is in good company too.  At the Physlink website they break down the Earth’s core temperature issue:

It is approximately 4000°C at the centre of the Earth. To put this in context:

  1. The centre of the Sun is approximately 15 million°C
  2. The surface of the Sun is 5500°C
  3. Iron melts at 1535°C (when at atmospheric pressure)
  4. Water boils at 100°C (when at atmospheric pressure)
  5. Human skin is comfortable with temperatures up to about 60°C
  6. The highest temperature recorded on the Earth’s surface is 58°C (Libya 1922)

It is not possible to directly measure the temperature at the centre of the Earth and four thousand degrees is nothing more than our most well-established piece of guesswork to date.

Al Gore is not a scientist.  He’s not a climatologist, geologist, or a meteorologist.  He’s a con-man, a huckster making millions off of the unwarranted fear of global catastrophe.  He is also someone who testifies about climate issues in front of other non-scientists in the U.S. Congress while they consider “Cap and Trade” legislation that will drive up taxes and energy costs for Americans.  Make sure your Representatives and Senators know that you know the hot air is from Al Gore, not Global Warming.

Oh, in case you think I’m making this up…here’s the video:


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Al Gore Wins The Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 15

Posted by Ben in Political | No Comments

It took me a while to get the nausea to subside. The idea of Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize initially made me feel very unsettled. After all, what has Al Gore done to promote world peace? Has he stopped an ongoing war, or has he just talked trash about leaders that have to face war each day? Has Al Gore prevented a war somewhere? If he has I can’t find a reference anywhere. Has he even brought potential enemies to the table to talk out their differences? No, he hasn’t stopped a war, hasn’t prevented a war, and hasn’t hosted a peace conference.

It turns out that Al Gore’s nomination for the Nobel came about for his efforts to scare the public with stories of impending doom due to global warming. That’s not how the Nobel committee characterized his original nomination, it’s just my interpretation but I stand by it. But since global warming is the basis for Gore’s Nobel, how exactly does his ministry contribute to peace…oh yeah, it doesn’t.

Not only does Al Gore’s global warming ministry not contribute to peace, it’s not particularly good at educating young people. A recent ruling in a British court detailed 9 significant errors in Al Gore’s movie about global warming and ruled that it could not be shown to secondary school children without notes that balance the errors and Gore’s “one-sided” views. Did the Nobel committee know about this?

Did the Nobel committee get it wrong? Of course they did, just like the time they gave the prize to Yasser Arafat. Yes, the terrorist leader Yasser Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize. Makes me feel globally warm and fuzzy, how about you?

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