H/T EDL Buck
Category Archives: Crypto Environmentalism
Man-made global warming: even the IPCC admits the jig is up
The Telegraph:
James Delingpole
James Delingpole is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who is right about everything. He is the author of numerous fantastically entertaining books, including his most recent work Watermelons: How the Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children’s Future, also available in the US, and in Australia as Killing the Earth to Save It. His website is www.jamesdelingpole.com.
Could this mysterious glowing orb have something to do with climate change? Surely not!
Breaking news from the US – h/t Watts Up With That? – where a leaked draft of the IPCC’s latest report AR5 admits what some of us have suspected for a very long time: that the case for man-made global warming is looking weaker by the day and that the sun plays a much more significant role in “climate change” than the scientific “consensus” has previously been prepared to concede.
Here’s the killer admission:
Many empirical relationships have been reported between GCR or cosmogenic isotope archives and some aspects of the climate system (e.g., Bond et al., 2001; Dengel et al., 2009; Ram and Stolz, 1999). The forcing from changes in total solar irradiance alone does not seem to account for these observations, implying the existence of an amplifying mechanism such as the hypothesized GCR-cloud link. We focus here on observed relationships between GCR and aerosol and cloud properties.
As the leaker explains, this is a game-changer:
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Agenda 21 and leftist indoctrination in the Toronto school boards
Strongly recommend watching this video to understand some of the jargon the guest uses above:
Andthis one which is really good on the Japanese WW2 issue.
Greenpeace causing massive amounts of death in the developing world. Again.
It isn’t often that I disagree with Ezra Levant but I must here where he states that the story in the video below is the worst thing that Greenpeace has ever done.
I think it was when Greenpeace talked Zambia into refusing a US gift of GM corn that would have fed starving millions during a famine at the time. (Video on that below the main one. Cut to 23 minutes if you just want the Zambian section)
The UAE funds hollywood film with Mat Daemon!
Mat Daemon
Warning: The clip below is tedious as hell after about 20 seconds. Stop the clip at that point for your own sake.
Lord Moncton debunks a number of barely-memorable climate scares
Acid rain, nuclear winter, ozone holes, I know there are more but thats off the top of my head
Fraudulent ‘hockey stick graph’ huckster seeks to sue Mark Steyn
Michael Coren and Lord Moncton on climate change attitudes
From climate change, to changing attitudes about climate. Good.
Patrick Moore on Ezra Levant
Both of these fine men are heroes of mine.
Australia wages war on clowns and wedding ceremonies
H/T Fluffers
PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT OPERATIONS ACT 1997 – SECT 146E
Restrictions on release of balloons
146E Restrictions on release of balloons
(1) Offence of releasing balloons A person who releases 20 or more balloons at or about the same time is guilty of an offence if the balloons are inflated with a gas that causes them to rise in the air.
Maximum penalty (for a corporation or an individual): 10 penalty units.
(2) Offence of causing or permitting release of balloons A person who causes or permits the release (whether by one or more than one person) of 20 or more balloons at or about the same time is guilty of an offence if the balloons are inflated with a gas that causes them to rise in the air.
Maximum penalty (for a corporation or an individual): 10 penalty units.
(3) Aggravated offence A person is guilty of an aggravated offence under this subsection if the person commits an offence under subsection (1) or (2) and the number of balloons released is more than 100.
Maximum penalty (instead of any penalty under subsection (1) or (2)):
• in the case of a corporation-55 penalty units, or
• in the case of an individual-33 penalty units.
(4) Exceptions Subsections (1)-(3) do not apply if:
(a) the balloons are released unintentionally and without negligence, or
(b) the balloons are released inside a building or structure and do not make their way into the open air, or
(c) the balloons are hot air balloons that are recovered after landing, or
(d) the balloons are released for scientific (including meteorological) purposes.
(5) Aggravation not proved If the court is satisfied that a person charged with an offence under subsection (3) is not guilty of that offence but is satisfied on the evidence that the person is guilty of an offence under subsection (1) or (2), the court may find the person guilty of the offence under subsection (1) or (2), and the person is liable to punishment accordingly.
(6) Evidence In any proceedings under this section:
(a) it is not necessary for the prosecutor to establish the exact number of balloons released, and
(b) evidence that a balloon rose in the air after being released is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, evidence that the balloon was inflated with a gas that caused it to rise in the air.
More U.N. lunacy
It seems the UN feels that less people would be good for Earth. I sort of agree. I think less UN would be great for the earth.
The face of soft-totalitarianism. The horror is below the surface.
There is always a reason to pass draconian laws and destroy peoples freedom. Always. When you debate your left wing or for that matter your right wing friends, when you ask about a law they like they will always have an explanation as to why that particular limit on your freedom has to exist but perhaps the one they dont like does not.
The thing that really sickens me, is how the new face of totalitarianism, the slow gentle creeping and ever sanctimonious and smug faces and voices so common now in Canada and the US, replace the more familiar Stalins and Pol Pots we are so used to, with guns and starvation. These guys one pen stroke at a time are trying to create a utopia not based on science but on assumptions using faux and crypto-enviornmentalism and of course, the old-standby, ‘public health’ to make sure your behavior always conforms to the current political fashion. These people bank on your rational risk-benifit. They know that so long as its slow, and one thing at a time, just like the Muslim brotherhood and their ‘Milestones’ project to force Islamic sensibilities on us, that we won’t risk what freedom and wealth we have to fight these annoying little regulations that are foisted upon us one, after the other, after the other.
From draconian smoking bylaws to transfats to plastic bags and it will not stop there. This is fashion not science. And it is the totalitarian-utopian impulse being observed by politicians not a genuine attempt to husband or administer a society of free men.
After you watch the clip above, please take the 20 odd minutes and watch the excellent Penn & Teller TV episode on recycling. But you know what? Even if recycling was a good thing, it is still wrong to force it or ban plastic bags. The citizens of Toronto should heap dog feces in mountains on the steps and lawns of city hall till they remember just how useful plastic bags can be.
NASA rocked by global warming rebellion
American Thinker:
Fifty top astronauts, scientists and engineers at NASA have signed a letter asking the agency to cease its global warming buffoonery. The global warming emperor has no clothes, and people are finally saying so out loud and in public.
Notrickzone brings us the entire letter, noting that the signers have a combined 1000 years of professional experience. Here it is:
March 28, 2012
The Honorable Charles Bolden, Jr.
NASA Administrator
NASA Headquarters
Washington, D.C. 20546-0001
Dear Charlie,We, the undersigned, respectfully request that NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) refrain from including unproven remarks in public releases and websites. We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data. With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled.
Organic futurism: aesthetics and technique out of nature
From European Son.
It was a couple of decades ago when I first came across the work of Koji Tatsuno. The work of Tatsuno, a relatively unknown and self-taught Japanese fashion designer, was being shown in Joseph, an upscale fashion store in South Kensington.To call it untypical would be an understatement. One of Tatsuno’s dresses was made of coral and another was made of cloth and dried mushrooms, if I remember correctly.
Tatsuno was one of several Japanese designers making something of a splash in the UK at the time. Issey Miyake, more famous, had likewise experimented with materials, including treated paper.
Folded in peculiar ways, creating angular shapes — architectural, yet in some respects reflective of nature, perhaps at a microscopic level — Miyake’s work brought traditional… read more.