Global warming hits Canadian prairies

From The National Post

Edmonton breaks weather record for coldest December 13

December 13, 2009, 3:38 PM by Scott Maniquet

Sunday marked the coldest Dec. 13 in Edmonton’s history.

Environment Canada recorded a frigid -46.1 C, or -58.4 with wind chill, at the Edmonton International Airport at 5 a.m., Environment Canada meteorologist Pierre Lessard said.

The old record of -36.1 C was set last year, he said.

“To break a temperature by 10 degrees is very exceptional,” said Lessard.

A ridge of frigid Arctic air has hit all the prairie provinces this weekend, causing record-low temperatures in many parts of northern Alberta, Lessard said.

“Temperatures are very cold over Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. There are some places more windy than the others, especially northern Saskatchewan and the north half of Manitoba are very cold,” he said.

But Arctic winds are normal in the winter and should pass through by the middle of this week, Lessard said.

Some flights scheduled to land at the Edmonton International Airport late Saturday night and early Sunday morning were diverted to Calgary because of the severe temperatures, said Edmonton International Airport spokeswoman Traci Bednard.

There were some delays and a couple of cancellations for flights departing Edmonton as well on Sunday morning because of the cold, she said.

“Different airlines and aircrafts have different operating limits,” Bednard said.

Canwest News Service

photo: Pedestrians brave the frigid weather as trees are coated with ice fog on Dec. 13, 2009. (Ed Kaiser/Canwest News Service)

Sea levels rise, stupidest most pernicious lie of the decade

Here is one of those articles I have had open on a tab for over a week waiting to post. I suppose it took me so long because it really is infuriating that the third world, which basically takes no responsibility whatsoever for its citizens and instead wishes to enslave the tiny fraction of the worlds population which reproduces responsibly, which in fact looks after its children well, which husbands the environment so well that some of the highest human population density areas on earth in the USA have some of the lowest pollution levels, (remember, CO2 is NOT a pollutant) which puts its children into education at our own expense from the age of 5 years old or less and often until our 30s, as opposed to, well, not doing so, in order to learn skills that will enhance our world and our culture. At the end of the day, this pernicious lie about AGP is about attempting to punish the responsible fraction of the worlds people by enslaving them to the irresponsible percentage of the world without them having to change a damn thing about they way they think or live.

Africans are not being asked to breed more responsibly. Muslims are not being told to get a secular education and stop preaching hate against everyone else on earth or more importantly perhaps, learn to farm.

Meanwhile, the fraction of the world who does things quite well over all are being asked to work harder and give up more of what they create on the basis of lies like the sea level crap. If there was a single decent investigative journalist on earth left alive by now we would all know if Al Gore had any ocean front property in his portfolio and if he felt it would be a good idea to sell it fast and cheap. Of course we all know, no one is lowering the price of ocean front property. Because we all know the sea level rise thing is a lie.

So why is policy being made on the basis that it is not?

From The Telegraph:

Rise of sea levels is ‘the greatest lie ever told’

The uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story, writes Christopher Booker.

Christopher Booker
Published: 6:25PM GMT 28 Mar 2009

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If one thing more than any other is used to justify proposals that the world must spend tens of trillions of dollars on combating global warming, it is the belief that we face a disastrous rise in sea levels. The Antarctic and Greenland ice caps will melt, we are told, warming oceans will expand, and the result will be catastrophe.

Although the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) only predicts a sea level rise of 59cm (17 inches) by 2100, Al Gore in his Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth went much further, talking of 20 feet, and showing computer graphics of cities such as Shanghai and San Francisco half under water. We all know the graphic showing central London in similar plight. As for tiny island nations such as the Maldives and Tuvalu, as Prince Charles likes to tell us and the Archbishop of Canterbury was again parroting last week, they are due to vanish.

But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story.

Despite fluctuations down as well as up, “the sea is not rising,” he says. “It hasn’t risen in 50 years.” If there is any rise this century it will “not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm”. And quite apart from examining the hard evidence, he says, the elementary laws of physics (latent heat needed to melt ice) tell us that the apocalypse conjured up by
Al Gore and Co could not possibly come about. Continue Reading →

It would be mildly interesting to debate climate science with one of these idiots…

if the outcome wasn’t so perfectly predictable.

They would treat you the same way a Muslim imam would treat you if you suggested that ‘Allah’ was a perversion of an earlier Arab pagan moon god and does not exist. In the article below, there is an astonishing amount of bullshit. Back in the 80s they would have fined this article for the amount of methane it is producing and consequent holes in the ozone.

From The Telegraph UK:

Copenhagen climate summit: 1,000 anarchists arrested

Nearly 1,000 people were arrested in Copenhagen yesterday as anarchists and left-wing activists fought running street battles with police in the Danish capital as negotiations continued at the climate summit.

Cobble stones were thrown through the windows of the former stock exchange building and foreign office buildings in the city, but police made a large number of pre-emptive arrests under a controversial anti-hooligan law.

Suspected troublemakers were herded into a closed-off street, made to sit down and then tied up with plastic cuffs. They were then bused to a detention centre set up for the climate conference

Police said four cars were set on fire during the evening. One policeman was hurt by a stone and a Swedish man injured by a firework.

“You don’t have to use that kind of violence to be heard,” said Connie Hedegaard, the Danish minister presiding at the United Nations talks. She condemned rioters after welcoming the main march at a candlelit vigil outside the conference centre.

One activist group accused the police of abuse complaining people had been forced sit on the road for hours in near-freezing temperatures.

The day’s main demonstration – a march involving 40,000 people – remained good natured but there remain fears that a hard-core of more violent demonstrators may still be waiting until later in the week, when President Barack Obama and other world leaders will arrive, to protest.

Inside the Bella Centre, delegates at the COP15 climate summit gathered around flat-screen TVs, showing both the police crackdown and the peaceful rally of environmental compaigners.

Despite the protesters’ urgings, there are growing fears that the summit could degenerate into an undignified global squabbling match with poor nations accusing their rich counterparts of forging a “backroom deal” at a secret dinner.

Continue Reading →

PJTV Bruce Bawer reports on Copenhagen’s crypto-science commiefest.

Really. Tell your cable company to screw themselves and pocket 90% of what you spend and give $5.00 a month to PJTV and get real information. Here is a great example of how news should actually be reported and true critical thinking applied. By Bruce Bawer:

Here is more on Copenhagen:

Do not dare challenge global warming. This might happen to you

Thank you KitmanTV

At a recent symposium on free speech given in Ottawa Canada by Joseph Ben-Ami’s Policy Studies group, many of the speakers discussed one currently fashionable method for destroying free speech which is magnificently exemplified in the video below. I will be posting the speeches from that Ottawa Symposium as I get them. Look for John Robson’s first, a truly gifted thinker and journalist. Meanwhile, check out the video below with all due horror. This is the way those who speak their truths yet not in keeping with the new orthodoxy are treated.
H/T Gates of Vienna

Bruce Bawer reports for PJTV from Commiefest

Please support PJTV. I have an idea. Cut your cable off and give one 20th of what you pay your cable company to PJTV and you will not only get vastly better information, you will help to grow a news network that actually may help dig us out of the horror we are in now thanks to Irrational leftism and Islam.

PJTV and CBN, doing the job the multi billion dollar news goliath utterly fails to do. Here, Bruce Bawer, author of the excellent and important book, ‘Surrender’ is reporting for PJTV on the absurd climate conference in Denmark which should much better be called ‘Commiefest’.

I have been asked a few times why I do not report more on ‘climate-gate’. I typically just mock it all because we all should know by now, none of this was ever about science, the climate, the environment or anything remotely like that. These treaties and faux solutions will be passed no matter how much actual evidence comes to light showing that none of this was ever factual or meaningful. This is about leftism and ‘The Narrative‘ and enforcing politically correct doctrine.

John Stewart on Climategate. Droll.

It is great to see a few big media types mocking the situation with respect to Al Gore, climategate and so on. Really of course, American and world citizens should be demanding the complete dismantlement of a ton of institutions, jail for thousands of people and the termination of jobs for tens of thousands more. This is no small thing. Of course, none of that will happen. Why? Because this was never about the climate. If everyone of the people who signed the IPCC report were to appear in black nylons and a Nixon mask and announce that they made it all up and how stupid are the rest of us, nothing would change. It was a totem to bring on more socialism, more western guilt, more pressure on civilization itself and strain the quality of life of those of us that have been virtually prisoners in schools and institutions our whole lives to create wealth, develop new ideas and make the world a better place while advantaging people who basically live according to millennium old superstitions and genuine racism. So this is why I don’t care much about “Climate Gate.” For people who had a commie agenda nothing will change. For people who were intending not to invest in all this crap this will provide ammunition. But at the end of the day, this was never about the climate and these revelations will change nothing.

John Stewart proves my point rather wonderfully.

Science Tsar attacked on his continued adherence to disproved climate science

From Gateway Pundit:

Ranking Member Rep. Sensenbrenner grilled Science Czar Dr. Holdren at the Global Warming hearings today.

Rep. Sensenbrenner (R-WI) was brilliant in grilling Holdren on global warming junk science.

During the hearing Holdren tried to define what the meaning of “trick” is.
The AP reported:

House Republicans pointed to controversial e-mails leaked from climate scientists and said it was evidence of corruption. Top administration scientists looking at the same thing found no such sign, saying it doesn’t change the fact that the world is warming.

The e-mails from a British university’s climate center were obtained by computer hackers and posted online about two weeks ago. Climate change skeptics contend the messages reveal that researchers manipulated and suppressed data and stifled dissent, and conservative bloggers are dubbing it “Climategate.” Continue Reading →

PJTV’s The Narrative

One of my favorite pieces from PJTV, this one I have posted before on Vlad but as sevenload.com elected to close my channel, I had to re-upload and here re-post. If you have not seen this before, please do watch. If you have, at least you know its here again should you wish to refer someone to it.

PJTV The Narrative plus History PC from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.
Here is an update on Gladney Dec 3rd 09

NOT a post on ‘climategate’

Readers of vlad may or may not notice that I haven’t really posted that much on what for many are the staggering implications of what is now being called ‘climategate’.

There is a good reason for that.

We have been posting on the utter bullshit of ‘AGP’ or ‘Anthropogenic global warming’ for well over a year. We have presented documentaries, facts figures and science (although many of the best videos from well qualified and respected cosmologists and climatologists did disappear from youtube often days after they where posted) and we cannot help but notice some very important and oft repeated facts:

1. NONE of the predictions by the global warming people have occurred. NONE. this means that at the very very best, their models are valueless.

2. The terms and conditions under which, spokesmen for AGP like David Suzuki or Al Gore will speak publicly, indicate at the very least that they know what they are saying is utter nonsense. This is a crime in my opinion at least in terms of ethics if not an actual breach of any criminal code. I hope they are well taken to task for the harm their lies have created as they cause warped policies that reflect no aspect of reality, costing billions and billions while not addressing any real problems such as real pollution at all. The people who may have the right to be the angriest are real environmentalists. Ones who deal with reality.

Sadly, rather than facts, evidence, logic, reason, and science it seems as if it took the hacking of some emails to get people to notice that the world is in fact colder, not warmer and that this global warming thing is far more a political project than a scientific one. I felt I had to post something. Thanks to Larwyn, here is a rather pithy and amusing video on the subject. I wonder though, within 5 years the same people or at least the same mentality is going to try and sell some other apocalyptic scenario that will destroy us all and the planet or the whole solar system if we do not give up all our freedom, end capitalism or whatever other spurious demands leftists will make on us. Will we remember? assuming of course we get out of this one in time.

I need to add this one thing as a post script.

If Global warming was true, it would be a good thing. Have a look at the raw numbers of species of all kinds at various latitudes and watch that number plummet as you move to colder and colder ones. To quote the co-founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, “Ice is the enemy of life”

The Cloud Mystery

Here is probably the best documentary on ‘global warming’ yet done. This youtube play list shows the work and science of the Danish physicist and cosmologist on solar storms and cosmic rays who’s data actually does match the climate record, almost completely unlike CO2 records. Thanks to KitmanTV for this one.