Thursday, July 10, 2014

Global Warming Disbelief

          Enthusiasts for man-made global warming say that the debate on its existence is over. In effect, they say that man-made global warming is a fact and there should be no more discussion about its validity.
          However, Rasmussen Reports says voters strongly believe the debate about global warming is not over yet and reject the decision by some news organizations to ban comments from those who deny that global warming is a problem.
          Only 20% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the scientific debate about global warming is over, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Sixty-three percent (63%) disagree and say the debate about global warming is not over.
          I could be egocentric and say that because I have been pounding on the subject of disbelief in man-made global warming for a few years, I’m finally making progress. However, I will give the credit to a logical and informed public.

          Either way, it looks like we’re making good progress in limiting government’s attempts to push down our throats a climate control program which would assure that the US quickly becomes a second rate political and financial power.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

BBC Censoring Climate Dissenters

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a government-owned public communication system. Its stated main responsibility is to provide impartial public service broadcasting.
It has recently been criticized, presumably by leftist global warming alarmists, of allowing too much air time to those in opposition of the British government’s position on global warming.
The BBC has responded by a program to reduce air time by dissenters. The justification is said to be a matter of fairness based upon numbers. It is said that since there are so many more proponents of climate control than dissenters of global warming, the majority of their time should be with the proponents.

The BBC can take this high-handed approach in the UK, because it has no constitution allowing freedom of the press, such as we have in the US. The danger, of course, is that the majority proponents of man-made global warming could be wrong, and the BBC would be helping to influence the general British public of traveling down an incorrect road. The BBC action can also be interpreted as another form of censorship.

Monday, July 7, 2014

Nine-Year Climate Cooling in the US

Forbes Magazine reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s most accurate, up-to-date temperature data confirm the United States has been cooling for at least the past decade. 
NOAA previously established a network of 114 pristinely sited temperature stations spread out fairly uniformly throughout the United States. Because the network, known as the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN), is so uniformly and pristinely situated, the temperature data require no adjustments to provide an accurate nationwide temperature record. USCRN began compiling temperature data in January 2005.
For those who may point out U.S. temperatures do not equate to global temperatures, the USCRN data are entirely consistent with – and indeed lend additional evidentiary support for – the global warming stagnation of the past 17-plus years. While objective temperature data show there has been no global warming since sometime in the last century, the USCRN data confirm this ongoing stagnation in the United States also.
What do global warming enthusiasts have to say about that?

More Ice in Antarctica

MailOnline.com, a UK newspaper, reports that America’s National Snow And Ice Data Center, which is funded by Nasa, revealed that ice around the southern continent covers about 16million sq km, more than 2.1 million more than is usual for the time of year.
It is by far the highest level since satellite observations on which the figures depend began in 1979.
In statistical terms, the extent of the ice cover is hugely significant.
What do the global warming enthusiasts think about that?