As CO2 climate models falter and even the IPCC backs off its estimates, it just may be that a radical shift in thinking is looming. Wouldn't it be funny if it was the sun all along?
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Gee ya think? And right when the evidence of no evidence of man made global climate change warming is being uncovered the WILD ROSE PARTY decided that it would be in there best interest's to jump on the U.N. plant REDFRAUDS bandwagon.
Ill tell you the wild rose party has made enough changes to there platform I cant tell them from the PC party or the liberals now so what's the point? this is a typical divide and conquer strategy of the left why did Danielle do this? she is smarter than this.
Danielle did it because she probably didn't have a choice, but I agree, the Wildrose became "Just Another Political Party" last week. Visa, MasterCard, American Express, whatever...
Yesterday Obum--le starts his rant on saving the states from global warming.
Change the topic from Obum--le care to climate care and all the lemmings will
follow into the abyss.
Garth Wood "Wildrose became "Just Another Political Party""
And the Federal Conservative's started eating their young in self destructive lunacy. Who has an old Reformer got left to vote for?
AGW theory has been junk science bunk from day one. Climatology cannot assert the certainty they claim in predicting our chaotic climate. The certainty they express is about the same as gravity; no way that's valid.
They did a bait switch somewhere in the 90s. It was something to witness; because we care about pollution we should care about climate change. So that makes them the same thing right? Wrong - think about millions of tons of carbon monoxide and other nefarious pollutants spewing out of China affects "climate change." No it's about Canadian "per capita emissions" and the evil oil sands warming the earth by 1 millionth degree.
The protagonists flipped the lexicon to CO2 as a proxy for pollution, while successfully flipping the burden of proof over the skeptics, painting them as evil capitalists (except cool ones that is).
$Trillions later what are the results. On alternative energy - giant while elephant failures from trying too quickly to transition out of fossil fuels, particularly wind and solar, not to mention off shore wind, the white mammoth.
On pollution? Well Thank God China is leading the way. Not - powering an infrastructure for over a billion people primarily on dirty coal (the main AGW amplifier so they say), while exporting wind and solar technology doesn't cut it.
The climate. Flat as a pancake. I think the warmists are missing an opportunity here. They should claim credit for the 15 year pause. They didn't realize they were that good. So send more money folks.
Good luck with that and good day to all.
This planet was much warmer and much cooler in the past than it is now. A past that didn't include SUV's or fossil fuels. We as a species are not causing the warming or cooling therefore we can not control it.
Oh bouy...
Read this and weep.
Alberta hopes to have environmental monitoring panel running by early 2014
The guvamint wants to be seen to be doing something.
They want to start the process.
They are going to spend $18 million on advertising to convince Barack that we are doing something.
First nations are bitching.
They are having trouble finding people to head this thing. (looking for people with board governance. Hint - look at the laid off health board flunkies)
Nevertheless, I am supposed to be confident in the new agency.
I for one am hoping for a threefer. I hope that as the AGW scam winds down it shakes to the core the political, scientific and academic elites. The political into which trap the WRP just fell and its belief that in order to be relevant it must be the savior of mankind. The scientific and its priestly role where by it hectors and lectures us on a daily basis about how to live. The academic and its closed shop mentality whereby a bunch of never-weres are the gate keepers to advancement.
I would suspect a shift in strategy rather than thinking. I am part way through reading Vaclav Klaus' book blue Planet in Green Shackles.
In the book he talks about the birth of modern environmentalism and says it began with Ludwig Klages' essay "Man and Earth", 1913, and began to gather momentum with the Nazi's 'religion of nature' and the "Volkisch movement".
Just as we saw from history in East Germany, many former SS men joined the communists, and in Hungary, former Arrow Cross men also joined the communists, when the Soviet Union collapsed many dislocated and adrift totalitarian minded communist found a new home in radical environmentalism.
There are not a lot of copies of Klaus' book are available.
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=Vaclav+Klaus&sts=t&tn=Blue+Planet+in+Green+Shackles
Hey guys, lighten up. The AlGore got his billion and Hollywood sweetie. Ssss awl gud. And just think about all those limo rides a bunch of second rate public hacks got to take. Sss awl gud.
If the idea was to go along with the radical greens to keep the economy humming, that is about the same mistake that Germans made in the 1930s to go along with Hitler to keep their economy humming. Sure in the distorted logic of the dictator's world view, you could see short-term gains, but there were inevitable fatal errors in those assumptions.
These mysterious conversions of prominent opponents of the globalist agenda simply pour fuel on semi-paranoid conspiracy theories and certainly point to possible influences behind the scenes that might be traced back to powerful foreign interests.
Canadian conservatives need to rise to the occasion and retake control of their various political parties, at the moment they seem to have been hijacked by non-conservative if not anti-conservative special interests who have no business being anywhere near the power centres of these parties. Too much passive acceptance and pointless praise of a deep game that probably never existed, collaboration and surrender would be more accurate.
Peter, well said, and Alberta's Progressive Conservative Party is a prime example of a party that has been taken over by the left, and Wildrose seems to be following, although that may be strategy to gather some LIVs.
IF that is their strategy Ken then it likely won't work. Garnering a few LIVs will likely cut into their base support. I know I won't be voting for them again until they renounce their folly and get a new leader. Any leader that can be re-cast from a 'Ralf Klein lite' to a 'Nancy Betkowski wannabe' is so unsubstantial as to be ignored. I listened to her drone from the the WkRP convention where she beatified every Albertan that drew a breath in the last 5 years and realized this woman is a complete bubble head. She reminds me of Owebama because she seems to be the marionette with strings attached.
The sad fact is that if you are a conservative there is nobody to vote for anymore here in Alberta. You are reduced to supporting the least of lefties. Since Rutherford got canned, we don't even have a hint of a conservative voice in this province. Can't say I would give any of them my vote anymore.
Who will repay the taxpayer for the billions of dollars wasted on this madness of the "educated" ?
The incandescent bulb is still to be banned, windmills are still being erected and the taxpayers money is still being stolen.
As this culty nonsense is exposed for its complete lack of science based evidence, who of the shameless promoters and profiteers will be held accountable?
Will the canadian "just-us" system even investigate these decades of lying and theft?
What of our government watchdogs who instead of doing their job, went full activist ? There is no documented empirical science attached to the endless policies imposed upon us taxpayers. All to prevent a nonexistent harm.
In my world, swearing an oath of service,then doing the opposite is called treason.
The cost of this assault on our society is yet to be fully reckoned, Billions $ for sure, trillions when you add the insane regulations.
Yet an impoverished taxpayer must pay up for the perks and pensions of the clowns who sold us out.
Next from the same "experts" will be Ban DiHydrogen Monoxide.
There is no way the behaviour of our Kleptocracy will change, short of forcible removal of their fangs from our financial bloodstream.
Remember.... Equal justice for Bernie Madoff.
Donna Laframbois released a leaked version of the IPCC report #5 the draft report is chock full of AGW assertions and just as false as any previous documents.
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/
Regardless of the language they choose to frame the estimates and projections, the UN still harbours its agenda ad clearly intends to perpetuate fraud to get their way.
Given the dominant culture of the institutional left, the legacy of public education, the rent seeking on a scale not seen since the military-industrial complex, there are understandably still few informed people on this file. I was one of the original signatories of the Oregon Petition of 1997 and in the ensuing years kept abreast of the almost glacial progress in the retreat of the junk science paradigm.
Sadly, Danielle Smith took the Weasel approach the other day. Her exact words were harmless enough but the fact that she had to say them betrays a form of moral cowardice: "I accept that climate change is a reality, as do our members. I accept that there's a human influence on it,". Who wouldn't although how trivial is worth mentioning; and, "I leave the debate about the details to the science about (to) what extent it is and how fast it is occurring."
This also relatively harmless except that much of mainstream science is on the take, corrupted and incorporated into the institutional left.
The information age and honesty..
If you present an idea or movement based in facts and honesty you are handing your political financial enemies everything they need to tear you apart with other honest facts.. There is downside to everything and waking up the vested interest is just a click away..
Honest facts get defeated by other honest facts which ends up in political failure.. String enough of these together and the ruling class is in danger of revolution..
Politics has always been dishonest but in past it took time to research and mobilize effective opposition.. Good ideas and bad (both have down sides) could slip through and field test itself..
Politics or democracy was a crap shoot where the good only survived based on our technological short comings..
The only thing that works today is to control the entire process.. Democracy needs the BS to survive.. Politicians need the BS to survive.. The public demands the BS to survive..
Lies supporting lies can not be defeated with truth because you control the entire process, you just tell another lie (much to the peoples relief)..
Its funny that the information age is more of a threat to democracies than totalitarian states.. China blocks it for control and we let it flow for control..
So.. honesty and truth only existed in the first place because we didn't have the technology to kill it in the crib.. The entire system rigged with BS and lies is the only thing capable of moving forward in the disinformation age..
Study that if you got the stomach for truth..
well put jay.
So, when will the politicians start to change their thinking on this file? I agree with those who are calling out Danielle Smith. I thought she was made of sterner and smarter stuff. Very disappointed...
Patience all you Smith bashers.
Go back and re-read the WUTU post. It's just a matter of time now. The AGW theory is wobbling and will soon be tipped over.
Besides, it was the convention that passed the resolution and once the theory it toppled, the Wildrose can be the first to side with the correct science once this bogus theory is relegated to the scrapheap of history.
With few exceptions, politicians generally follow rather than lead. When the mob finally moves in another direction, the politicians scramble to get in front of them to feign leadership. So to answer your question, politicians will go against CAGW when they sense that they can be elected as a result. A quick search of recent polls on AGW doesn't give any confidence in the near future being pivotal. Notice that nothing here is related to objective reality, simply mob rule politely described as democracy.
The latest weasel Slogan "all the Climate Scientists Agree" is telling given that MOST of the climate PhD’s are mentally challenged. They are the losers that simply learned to repeat the mantra dictated by OTHERS & use probability math (nonsense when an idiot like Mann programs model simulations). Probability (best guess) depends on having the technical intelligence. Every stupid moron doesn’t have a legitimate probability argument. Understanding how to use “tools” is not just cheating.
We are stuck with more & more stupid people, something gained when the crack head generation had children. I guess it's better that they are not building critical systems
JMHO
There will be no change in thinking from the klepto's.
They will change the boogyman that we should be alarmed about, the cure will be the same, give them more of our money and allow them to control our lives ever more.
There will be no change in their thinking, parasites never voluntarily leave a healthy host.
The latest weasel Slogan "all the Climate Scientists Agree"
is BullfudgeScience:
1. Thousands of papers support man-made climate change, but not one found the evidence that matters
Cook may have found 3,896 papers endorsing the theory that man-made emissions control the climate, but he cannot name one paper with observations that shows that the assumptions of the IPCC climate models about water vapor and cloud feedbacks are correct. These assumptions produce half to two-thirds of the future projected warming in models. If the assumptions are wrong (and dozens of papers suggest they are) then the predicted warming is greatly exaggerated. Many of the papers in his list are from these flawed models.
In other words, he’s found 3,896 inconclusive, subsequently-overturned, or correct but irrelevant papers. What is most important about his study is that after thousands of scientists have pored over the best data they could find for twenty years, they still haven’t got any conclusive support.
2. Cook’s study shows 66% of papers didn’t endorse man-made global warming
Cook calls this “an overwhelming consensus”.
They examined “11 944 climate abstracts from 1991–2011 matching the topics ‘global climate change’ or ‘global warming’. We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming.
Perhaps the large number that are uncertain merely reflects the situation: climate science is complicated and most scientists are not sure what drives it.
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/05/cooks-fallacy-97-consensus-study-is-a-marketing-ploy-some-journalists-will-fall-for/
set you free, there is an old saying Charles Adler made popular a few years ago; it goes like this, "Any compromise between Good and Evil is a victory for Evil".
AGW is just one of many fronts being pushed by the Culture of Death. When Smith and the WkRP decided that they could get votes by compromise they lost the battle. The Culture of Death is uncompromising and has absolute faith that it is right and anyone else is wrong. While people like you and I are willing to allow a variety of opinion the Culture of Death does not. It can not rest until we humans join the Borg. Smith and WkRP just took that first step in being assimilated. There will be no Later, later. AGW may die of natural causes but WkRP will be in no position to fight the nest big scam (social agenda) to come down the pike because WkRP is too compromised.