Global warming derangement syndrome

Let's keep it scientific then: Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is a theory. It is an unproven theory. What you do with theories is put them to the test with scientific observations. Let's see what data points we now have:
1) Temperatures have not surpassed 1998 (NOAA)
2) Temperatures are now trending downward since 1998 (NOAA)
3) Ocean temperatures have not risen since 2000 when the Argo buoys were launched. The buoys even show a slight decrease in ocean temperatures
4) The Arctic ice froze to February levels by December, there are 1mm more sq km than before (previous was 13mm sq km)
5) The Arctic ice is 20cm thicker than "normal"
6) All polar bear pods are stable or growing (NOAA/PBS)
7) Mount Kilimanjaro is not melting because of global warming, rather "sublimation"
8) The Antarctic is not "melting", it is growing in most places, the sloughing off at the edges is normal as the ice mass grows
9) The majority of the Antarctic is 8 degrees below "normal"
10) The coveted .7 degree rise in temperatures over the last 100 years has been wiped out with last years below "normal" temperatures
11) Al Gores film was just deemed "propaganda" in a court of law in the UK as many points could not be substantiated by scientists
12) It was also just reveled that some of the footage in Al's film was CGI. The ice shelf collapse was from the movie "The Day After" (ABC)
13) One of the scientists that originally thought that CO2 preceded the warming has now found with new data that the CO2 rise follows the warming (Dr David Evans)
14) Storms have become less frequent and less severe (many GW alarmists are now backtracking these earlier "theories")
15) Droughts have always happened and always will
16) The greenhouse effect is real, our small contribution to it cannot even be measured
17) Several publications, including those that are "warmist" have recently written that the "natural" cycles of the earth may "mask" AGW. Give me a break.
18) 31,000 scientist have signed a petition against AGW!

With China (1 new coal fired plant coming on line each week) and India spewing millions of tons of CO2 in to the atmosphere, along with the rest of the world increasing their CO2 "production" over the last ten years, these results should be impossible.

Now, please be so kind to give me one piece of observable evidence that man is causing "global warming".

I believe that the hot air being emitted from these sanctimonious GW gasbags is a serious threat to the environment.

The left has a penchant for end of the world scenarios that never materialize. "Silent Spring" and "The Population Bomb" are good examples. "Inconvient Truth" will be filed in the same catagory someday soon. Professor Flannery is traveling in good company.

The amazing thing is that Rachel Carson and Paul Ehrlich are still considered heroes and sages even though almost everything they said has been proven wrong. Liberal tolerance seems to extend more easily in this direction than it does for conservative intellectuals.

Flannery's ludicrous suggestion is based on the woefully misinformed idea that global warming constitutes some sort of extinction-level event akin to the asteroid impact that played a major role in the death of the dinosaurs. Not even the most alarmist Day After Tomorrow believers forsee damage that severe.

The idiocies of Flannery's proposal are many. Other problems our author hasn't mentioned include: Pumping sulfur into the stratosphere would likely deplete the ozone layer. The sulfur would readily form sulfur dioxide, which is actually a worse greenhouse gas than CO2. Lastly, dimming the sun would further reduce the efficiency of solar energy as a renewable energy source, forcing us to become even more reliant on the fossil fuels which are being blamed for global warming in the first place.

Let me add one more point to John's list:
The earth's climate is constantly in a state of flux - it's never static. So who decided that the earth's climate as it was 100 years ago is the 'right' climate?

John - Nice compilation. One minor correction in #12. I believe you mean "The Day After Tomorrow." "The Day After" was that 1983 nuclear war TV movie, which I think the anti-nuke Left was hyping a lot at the time.

Also, regarding #6 - Is it *all* polar bear species. I thought it was just half. Is there a source you recommend?

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Jewish AND Republican?? Oy gevalt

Wow, just Wow.

We are lucky indeed that 08 has proven so cold. We see the Warmistas response when the facts are so incontrovertable; were they more ambiguous we would already be in a Depression from the rationing of fuels.

Please check this site out,
http://www.sepp.org/publications/NIPCC_final.pdf
The NON-intergovermental panel on climate change is an excellent source of thoughtful and well referenced research on climate issues.
And they could use a few bucks to get help the word out.
Thanks

To: Professor Tim Flannery,
Macquarie University, NSW
Australia enquiries@els.mq.edu.au

After reading your urgent advices my friends and I decided we would all immediately pitch in to solve this looming disaster. However we couldn't agree on which approach to adopt and are now asking for your help to make the right choice.

Some of my friends want to build a huge umbrella but can't agree on the colour, composition (maybe carbon fibre?) and where to position it; some want to knit a huge cotton blanket to drape over the world supported by a series of huge geo-stationary balloons but can't decide on the pattern to knit; others just want to sit in the corner and kiss their posteriors good-bye. Man, this is a real serious dilemma I tell you. We were unanimous however in agreeing to transfer to you the intellectual property rights to these proposals (including the proposal to kiss posteriors good-bye).

After a little more reflection some of my friends became even more radical and are calling upon you to take a Bex, lie down and rest until you get over this peculiar swooning spell. They suggested that you should then take a sabbatical and scan the Positions Vacant column for a temporary job as a test pilot for an experimental prototype intergalactical rocket propulsion vehicle.

Personally however I think that on your salary package that you can indeed afford the medical treatment that you so obviously need. Join an IA group. The therapy will be an enormous help to you. Remember it all starts with admitting your problem. As in the AA groups the individuals stand up and openly admit their problem. In the IA group (Idiots Anonymous) all you need do is stand up, admit that you are an idiot and from there-on you are on the road to recovery; we hope (and wish). You may even encounter old friends such as Al Gore and others; I believe that familiar faces can be a big help in situations such as these. Also I understand that Mr Michael Costa is the facilitator of these groups.

Well, good luck Tim old boy.

Yours insincerely,

John McMahon