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Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
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seal+hunters[i-seal+hunters]Via American Thinker, we learn of reports that the pack ice off Newfoundland's northeast coast and southern Labrador is so unusually thick that 100 sealing vessels have been trapped and some are at risk of foundering. Even a Canadian icebreaker, drafted in to help, is in trouble, and helicopters may have to be used to rescue stranded crews.

This is a nice contrast with the dire predictions from the global warming scare industry. Says American Thinker:

Al Gore and other thought leaders (Cameron Diaz) keep telling us the ice caps are melting and lower Manhattan will be under 20 feet of water before we know it. I understand Bob DeNiro is so afraid he's selling his Tribeca real estate.
And that idiot Miliband is arranging for all schools in England and Wales to receive a copy of Gore's film, "Inconvenient truth".

As to the current, very inconvenient truth, the Canadian Globe and Mail is reporting that at least 10 vessels, in an area off Fogo Island, are in "extreme difficulty" with the risk that ice could pierce their hulls. There are also three vessels in a similar predicament off southern Labrador, in the Strait of Belle Isle.

Local fishermen say the ice conditions are the worst they've seen in more than 20 years.

seal+hunters+2[i-seal+hunters+2]Brian Penney, a superintendent with the coast guard in Newfoundland and Labrador, says helicopters could be called in to rescue stranded crews as a northeast wind continues to jam the ice floes together. "There's vessels disabled, there's vessels damaged. There's crews that are out on the ice because there's quite a possibility that their vessels may sink or the vessels are out on their sides," he says.

He adds: "There's a strong possibility that there will be other crews we may have to rescue by coast guard ship or helicopter."

Earlier in the day, a helicopter airlifted the crew from the Dad and Sons, which was damaged by ice off Fogo Island. Mr. Penney said the stricken vessel is in danger of sinking. "She's damaged and just listed out on the ice, and once the ice pressure comes off there's a good possibility the vessel will sink," he said.

And so on the report goes. I wonder if the Coastguards will be flying out copies of Gore's film for the stranded crews to watch, while they are waiting to be rescued.

Pics courtesy of the Canadian Coast Guard

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AlGoreAndGlowingOrb[i-AlGoreAndGlowingOrb]As politicians fall over themselves to present their "green" credentials with ever fewer ideas on the environment or, for that matter, any other subject among the whole lot of them, the people are beginning to revolt.

The BBC has, rather unwisely perhaps, opened its website to anyone who wishes to comment on the subject of the government's climate change proposals, which seem to consist of more taxation, more regulation and a move back to the Dark Ages and the Conservatives' policies, which seem to consist of more taxation, more regulation and a move back to the Dark Ages. None of which, one assumes, will apply to the politicians themselves, who simply have to produce all that hot air.

It seems that the BBC audience, with very few exceptions, is not impressed. It is, indeed, very unimpressed. The BBC did say Cameron's policy was risky. It appears to be frankly suicidal.

Meanwhile, Thomas Lifson on American Thinker has found an interesting new story on the subject of Al Gore, CO2 emissions and the whole global warming ... ahem ... scam.

Would you be able to see Gore and his carbon trading company as a natural successor to Enron? Well, this is not entirely far-fetched:
About 20 years ago Enron was owner and operator of an interstate network of natural gas pipelines, and had transformed itself into a billion-dollar-a-day commodity trader, buying and selling contracts and their derivatives to deliver natural gas, electricity, internet bandwidth, whatever. The 1990 Clean Air Act amendments authorized the Environmental Protection Agency to put a cap on how much pollutant the operator of a fossil-fueled plant was allowed to emit. In the early 1990s Enron had helped establish the market for, and became the major trader in, EPA's $20 billion-per-year sulphur dioxide cap-and-trade program, the forerunner of today's proposed carbon credit trade. This commodity exchange of emission allowances caused Enron's stock to rapidly rise.
Naturally, one could not put CO2 emission under the Environmental Protection Agency, as it is not a pollutant.

Then came Al Gore who "led a U.S. initiative to review new projects around the world and issue ‘credits' of so many tons of annual CO2 emission reduction". And whose company trades carbon credits? Just asking.

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Merkel+2[i-Merkel+2]And, if the nature of and scale of the problem was not already evident, we see in the Reuters'’ headline on the report of the European Council an encapsulation of the way the media has bought into the climate change agenda as well.

Thus we get, "EU summit adopts bold environment strategy" with a report that reads, in part, as follows:

European Union leaders agreed a full package of binding measures on Friday to build a common energy policy and fight climate change, challenging the world to follow suit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

Merkel, who chaired a two-day summit, said the decisions taken by the 27-nation bloc, including a disputed binding target for renewable energy sources, were "ambitious and credible".

"I personally am very satisfied and happy that it has been possible to open the door into a whole new dimension of European cooperation in the years to come in the area of energy and combating climate change," she told a final news conference. "We can avoid what could well be a human calamity," she said.
This is a very stupid or ill-advised woman, projecting a strategy which is nothing short of an economic and human disaster. Ambitious it might be. Credible it is not. But all we get from the media is cheer-leading, as this insane policy takes shape.

Of course, if we had a credible political opposition, the media might handle it differently, quoting opposing views. But since all the main political parties have bought into this mass hysteria – including the Party led by that fool Cameron – there is nothing to counter the propaganda effect of news reports like this.

As for the Eurosceptics, if they got their act together, the EU's enthusiasm for the "Great Global Warming Swindle" should be a gift, allowing the movement to raise the banner around which the forces of reason coalesce. As usual though, the one political party that could have done this has dropped the pass.

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GW+003[i-GW+003]
It came as something as a shock to me to find that respected government scientists can lie, that they can falsify evidence and break all the rules of science – and that government officials will quite deliberately seek to cover-up the misdeeds.

If that is something of a naïve statement, so be it. But my background as a technician rather than a front-line scientist puts me closer in touch with the bulk of ordinary people, and my own personal experience of scientific fraud has important lessons for the current global warming controversy.

Read more here.

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