From NASA comes the story of Jupiter’s growing storms: Explanation: For about 300 years Jupiter’s banded atmosphere has shown a remarkable feature to telescopic viewers, a large swirling storm system known as The Great Red Spot. In 2006, another red storm system appeared, actually seen to form as smaller whitish oval-shaped storms merged and then developed the curious reddish hue. Now, Jupiter has a third red spot, again produced from a smaller whitish storm. All three are seen in this image made from data recorded on May 9 and 10 with the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The spots extend above the surrounding clouds and their red color may be due to deeper material dredged up by the storms and exposed to ultraviolet light, but the exact chemical process is still unknown. For scale, the Great Red Spot has almost twice the diameter of planet Earth, making both new spots less than one Earth-diameter across. The newest red spot is on the far left (west), along the same band of clouds as the Great Red Spot and is drifting toward it. If the motion continues, the new spot will encounter the much larger storm system in August. Jupiter’s recent outbreak of red spots is likely related to large scale climate change as the gas giant planet is getting warmer near the equator.
a nice little bit up on the Telegraph the other day. READ HERE
best excerpt:
“On April 24 the World Wildife Fund (WWF), another body keen to keep the warmist flag flying, published a study warning that Arctic sea ice was melting so fast that it may soon reach a “tipping point” where “irreversible change” takes place. This was based on last September’s data, showing ice cover having shrunk over six months from 13 million square kilometres to just 3 million.
What the WWF omitted to mention was that by March the ice had recovered to 14 million sq km (see the website Cryosphere Today), and that ice-cover around the Bering Strait and Alaska that month was at its highest level ever recorded. (At the same time Antarctic sea ice-cover was also at its highest-ever level, 30 per cent above normal).”
Nice feedback from other readers of that article with more info and links. Be sure to read deeper.
You may not have noticed but I’ve upgraded WordPress - the blogging software I use - from version 2.3.2 to 2.5. My ISP provides a front-end called Fantastico to help automate installs and upgrades but Fantastico is managed by a 3rd party and are slow to roll our new versions; hence, i did a manual upgrade this morning. It was pretty easy and I’m glad that I’m now able to keep up with the latests releases of WP both for functionality and security.
Don’t forget, Battlestar: Gallactica Season 4 airs tonight on SciFi. They are running most of Season 3 throughout the day so try to catch up if you missed the award winning and BEST show on TV.
I’m trying to figure out if I should pay someone to paint the living room or do it myself. Do it myself = $200 ladder, time to paint, delays in completion, questionable deliverable. Pay someone: $500, may have to buy ladder anyway to hang quilt. I’d like the satisfaction of doing it myself but two floors of painting just doesn’t sound like fun and I may be able to rent a ladder.. .man, I hate these kinds of decisions.
And finally this bit of news from World Meteorological Organization’s secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, ‘…global temperatures have not risen since 1998…’ Yep, you read that right. The article HERE has some more conjecture but the most important thing relayed by the BBC is one simple fact, GLOBAL TEMPERATURES HAVE NOT RISEN IN 10 YEARS. Suck it Al Gore.
And as always, when dealing with fear mongers: Correlation does not imply causation. For example:
Since the 1950s, both the atmospheric CO2 level and crime levels have increased sharply.
Hence, atmospheric CO2 causes crime.
Yet this is exactly the hair-brained thinking supported by Al Gore. Cars produce CO2 and CO2 impacts atmospheric conditions, hence mankind is causing global warming. This ignores: the sun, water vapor, volcanoes, the moon, the earth’s orbit, cyclic weather patterns and everything else out there.
-bill
It’s been a while since I posted a good Global Warming story and after the destruction of my previous website I don’t have any archives of the items I post in the past. So this morning I decided to poke around and find something really juicy:
An article published in the Mar 14, 2008 Washington Times is quite good… let’s take a look, shall we? (emphasis mine)
- “More than 20 years ago, climate scientists began to raise alarms over the possibility global temperatures were rising due to human activities, such as deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels. To better understand this potential threat, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988 to provide a “comprehensive, objective, scientific, technical and socioeconomic assessment of human-caused climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. IPCC reports have predicted average world temperatures will increase dramatically, leading to the spread of tropical diseases, severe drought, the rapid melting of the world’s glaciers and ice caps, and rising sea levels. However, several assessments of the IPCC’s work have shown the techniques and methods used to derive its climate predictions are fundamentally flawed. “
- “A panel of statisticians chaired by Edward J. Wegman, of George Mason University, found significant problems with the methods of statistical analysis used by the researchers and with the IPCC’s peer review process“
- “the community of specialists in ancient climates from which the peer reviewers were drawn was small and many of them had ties to the original authors“
- “The IPCC published its Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 predicting global warming will lead to widespread catastrophe if not mitigated, yet failed to provide the most basic requirement for effective climate policy: accurate temperature statistics“
- “…the IPCC clearly violated 60 of the 127 principles relevant in assessing the IPCC predictions. Indeed, it could only be clearly established that the IPCC followed 17 of the more than 127 forecasting principles critical to making sound predictions. “
- “Politics shapes the IPCC from beginning to end. Legislators, policymakers and/or diplomatic appointees select (or approve) the scientists — at least the lead scientists — who make up the IPCC. In addition, the summary and the final draft of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report was written in collaboration with political appointees and subject to their approval. “
Now for a little editorial from me:
The United States has the longest running, contiguous form of government in the world.
Do you understand what that means exactly? For over 230 years our form of government has worked without failure. No other major country on the planet can claim that right today. Simply look at the history of Europe. From monarchies to totalitarian and socialist regimes, Europe has been a political nightmare for hundreds of year; they just can’t get it right. So basically, in my opinion, Europeans don’t trust their government; they don’t believe that their politicians will have any longevity. Governments fail. They come and go.
But the EU? Hell, that’s got to work, right? So Europeans believe in global government more than local governments. They put all their eggs in theses all-powerful bodies like the UN and the EU. And that my friends is why Europeans so fully believe in Global Warming… because the UN and EU tell them it’s true. Because their own, now emasculated useless governments have no choice but to fall in step with EU policy tells them GW is real. Because their socialist media tells them its real.
Americans on the other hand generally have faith in but are still weary of their government. We’ve been around long enough and we did it right the first time. We take pride in our democracy and we don’t trust global governments because they historically fail. And because our government hasn’t embraced global climate change neither has our general population. And thank God for that.
-bill
San Francisco banned retailers from using plastic bags; thankfully the hard choice between paper and plastic was solved by the democratic process. Of course the drive to ban plastic bags had nothing to do with scientific fact. Instead, it was about hysteria and misinformed politicians doing the wrong thing because it felt good.
From this article on the Times Online, “The widely stated accusation that the bags kill 100,000 animals and a million seabirds every year are false, experts have told The Times.” “Lord Taverne, the chairman of Sense about Science, said: “The Government is irresponsible to jump on a bandwagon that has no base in scientific evidence. This is one of many examples where you get bad science leading to bad decisions which are counter-productive. Attacking plastic bags makes people feel good but it doesn’t achieve anything.” (emphasis mine)
Once again more proof that the general public and thus the government is full of idiots that are easily manipulated out of fear by the PLM (Politicians, Lawyers & Media) which use fear to make money and take control of your life through laws.
-bill
