greenhouse gas

There is a great deal of press regarding the DCD milk scandal…but who is to blame?

Of course it is easy to blame the useless repeaters intent on massive headlines…which of course I did. But the real root of the issue lies with smelly hippies and the green taliban.

They have been intent on demanding our farmers be clean and green…look at this list of Labour and Green luminaries that implored the use of this ‘technology’

The Labour Party:

“We have been gratified by the support we have received for Eco-n from the Government with the very positive visit by the Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Jim Anderton.

Mr Anderton’s visit was followed by a visit from Associate Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor.”

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Not content with demanding the use of biofuels, with the results that:

•  Rainforests have been levelled
•  Subsidence farmers driven from their land
•  and the world’s poor starve

Green scientists are now proposing to release aerosols all over the globe to “cure” the imaginary disease of global warming.

Solar radiation management is a type of geoengineering that would manipulate the climate in order to reduce the impact of global warming caused by greenhouse gasses. Ideas include increasing the amount of aerosols in the stratosphere, which could scatter incoming solar light away from Earth’s surface, or creating low-altitude marine clouds to reflect these same rays.

Research models have indicated that the climatic effect of this type of geoengineering will vary by region, because the climate systems respond differently to the reflecting substances than they do to the atmospheric carbon dioxide that traps warmth in Earth’s atmosphere. New work from a team including Carnegie’s Ken Caldeira uses a climate model to look at maximizing the effectiveness of solar radiation management techniques. Their work is published October 21st by Nature Climate Change.

Attempting to counteract the warming effect of greenhouse gases with a uniform layer of aerosols in the stratosphere, would cool the tropics much more than it affects polar areas. Greenhouse gases tend to suppress precipitation and an offsetting reduction in amount of sunlight absorbed by Earth would not restore this precipitation. Both greenhouse gases and aerosols affect the distribution of heat and rain on this planet, but they change temperature and precipitation in different ways in different places. Varying the amount of sunlight deflected away from the Earth both regionally and seasonally could combat some of this problem.

The Green movement is the true threat to the Earth and our environment.

Sensible stuff from Fraser Nelson:

In the end, the biggest mistake you can make in politics is to judge a programme by its intentions, not its results. For more than a decade, environmental policy has been cursed with cross-party consensus because no one wanted to be seen to oppose so noble a cause. This left us a situation where aristocrats are offered subsidies for follies, and the Government was unmoved by what could be the best environmental news for a generation. Shale has helped America’s carbon emissions fall by 430 million tons in five years, more than any other country’s. This is progress that would, if we had a rational debate, be celebrated.

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Rodney Hide says the ETS is a scam, he’s right of course.:

Former Prime Minister Helen Clark declares me a denier, actor Lucy Lawless says I’m whacko and political columnist Chris Trotter wants to charge me with treason.

Phew. All because I say out loud what most Kiwis think: New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is a scam and a waste. The ETS taxes our elderly trying to heat their homes and then uses the revenue to subsidise multi-national Japanese companies. These companies bought forests in New Zealand. Their trees are now subsidised because they suck up CO2.

And the reason for the money-go-round? To cool the planet. Even ETS architects say it won’t make a difference. So it’s a scam. And a waste.

It is a scam. Just like all the other eco-scams perpetrated on us:

The science is settled. Yada yada. Some extraordinary number of scientists have reached consensus. Blah, blah.

It all moves me not a jot. Science is not religion. It’s not politics. Science is never settled and truth isn’t decided by voting.

Besides, I’ve already survived innumerable environmental scares. We didn’t run out of oil as was scientifically predicted when I was at school.

Nor did we suffer the catastrophic ecological collapse that was the consensus. The ozone hole has gone the way of the Y2K bug. The population bomb never went off. We haven’t run out of food. And acid rain never killed the forests.

Back in the 1970s the earth was cooling. The frightener then was the impending ice age. I kid you not. It was front cover of Time magazine. The Earth then warmed. The frightener flipped to global warming. Then the Earth cooled. The scaremongers learned the lesson. They hedge their bets now, declaring the scare “climate change”. These flip-flops all happened in my lifetime. It’s hard to take the scares seriously.

Some of us don’t take them seriously other than to counter them because some, politicians included do take them seriously unfortunately. All scams have an element of fraud to them and the fraud is in the computer models:

 [Y]es, the Earth is warmer now than it was 100 years ago. The science shows that doubling CO2 in the atmosphere would increase the Earth’s temperature by a little over one degree.

It’s warmer now than it was but the present temperature is nothing out of the ordinary. It’s been warmer. And the present rate of temperature change is, again, nothing alarming. The Earth has seen it all before.

It’s all about what happens next. That’s where the leap occurs from science to computer models. The predicted rise in CO2 on its own doesn’t produce a rise in temperature that is at all worrying. Its effect must be multiplied within the models.

The chief greenhouse gas is not CO2, but water vapour. The models are programmed so increasing CO2 warms the earth, producing more water vapour which, in turn, warms the earth even more. It’s that multiplying effect through increased water vapour that causes the “climate change” scare, not the CO2 increase on its own.

The multiplication through water vapour is found only in the models. It’s not seen in nature. That’s despite spending billions of dollars looking. Indeed, it’s quite possible that water vapour has the opposite effect and dampens CO2′s warming effect.

It’s only the computer models that produce the scary future. And that’s precisely the result they programmed to produce. The models aren’t science and the science shows there’s nothing to be alarmed about. The scare is not from the real world. It’s a computer program, programmed to scare.

And a final word about crazy, silly Lucy Lawless:

I’m happy for Eco-Warrior Lucy Lawless to ditch her purple Mercedes, downsize her LA house, and swap electricity for solar panels to heat her swimming pool. Good for her. I am sure the planet heaved a sigh of relief.

But please, Lucy, lay off encouraging the Government to take ever more punishing action that makes it harder for the rest of us to heat our homes, get to work, and have work to go to.

We want to look after our kids too. For ordinary people it’s a job and a warm home that’s at stake. Not a downsized LA pad and switching the pool to solar.

Journalist banned again – Newstalk ZB

Nick Wang has again been barred from covering an event, this time at a publicly advertised Forum which was discussing China where Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yuanyuan was speaking.

Mr Wang says organisers informed him it was a private function, despite the fact it had been advertised. He says he knows of other people who attended the event without invitations being required.

Someone needs to tell these Chinese wankers, that NZ is a democracy and they are visitors here.

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