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PostPosted: Mon May 22, 2017 8:19 am    Post subject: GLOBULL WARMING HOKUM ON EARTH DAY,WHOSE GETTING THE CASH Reply with quote

GloBull Warming Hokum On 'Earth Day'

2017-04-22 18:03 by Karl Denninger
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Let's cut the crap, shall we?

This is scientific fact. It is a record of history showing temperatures and CO2 levels. You will note that there is no correlation between temperature and CO2 level. In fact, there appears to be an inverse correlation in many (but not all) instances.

I remind you that the basic truth of science when it comes to correlation and causation is as follows:

1. Correlation can never prove causation. It can only suggest that it might be true.

2. The inverse of correlation, however, strongly indicates that causation is absent if it occurs just once.

Well, it has been inverted when we're talking about CO2 and temperature -- and far more often than once.

In the Precambrian era CO2 concentrations fell quite a bit while temperatures rose. In the Silurian period, same. In the Carboniferous period, again. At the end of the Jurasic period, again temperatures went up while CO2 levels fell. Finally, at the exit of the Jurasic period CO2 went up while temperature slowly fell; we believe that happened due to a large asteroid impact (which would make sense as to the step function) but the continued fall in temperatures does not correlate with a further rise in CO2 -- until the exit of the Paleocene epoch.

There was a correlated rise in the Miocene epoch. But then we saw changes in temperature -- both up and down -- with a nearly-constant CO2 concentration.

Is there scientific evidence that CO2 levels cause global temperature change? No. The science says otherwise absent specific and detailed means of disproving why that correlation has been so-often not only absent but inverted.

Is it likely that CO2 levels cause "forcing" of climate change? No. Not only is there no correlation history that supports such a belief CO2 is 0.05% of the atmosphere, roughly. Only a small fraction of all CO2 is man-made; the rest occurs naturally from respiration of animals, decay of organic material, volcanic activity and combustion not initiated by man. In addition the oceans contain a monstrous amount of CO2 encapsulated in carbonates; this is a buffering reaction and anyone who has studied chemistry at all knows that the equilibrium point is driven by temperature, not the other way around. Therefore the argument must not be over whether CO2 is involved but whether the small fraction of CO2 that man controls is the causative factor. There simply is no science to support a claim that it is and plenty of evidence that CO2 is either reactive to temperature or may even be inversely correlated over sufficient time scales for the effect to show up.

It is a scientific fact that in the last ~100,000 years or so we've lived in a generally warming climate cycle and yet human-emitted CO2 has only been on the scene in material quantity for the last couple hundred years. There have been little excursions in temperature the other way during this cycle; the Maunder Minimum is of note and they were bad news for humans. You might want to keep that in mind because colder temperatures kill people faster and with greater certainty than hotter ones, specifically by damaging crop yields.

For those who argue that sea level rise is a horrifyingly bad outcome I will point to the Timber Holes; in the current cycle sea level has risen some four hundred feet. This location, roughly 15 miles offshore Destin, is in about 110' of water today and I have personally dove it to spearfish. It's a limestone bottom pock-marked with old holes where trees once stood but have long rotted away. Well, when sea level was 400' lower than it is today it's not hard to figure out why trees were there given this set of facts. Incidentally there's a drowned spring off Tampa in a couple hundred feet of water that still flows as well. It used to flow onto dry land. I've not dove that one; it's a monster dive due to its depth, especially inward beyond the rim and is a long run offshore as well. I will note for the record that the current sea level rise is measured in inches while the historical, current-period rise has been measured in hundreds of feet. If the current trend is continuing arguing over inches while hundreds of feet are in play is stupid. In short if you think that cycle has materially further to run in your lifetime or that of your children (not in times measured in thousands of years) you damn well better get away from anywhere that's less than a few dozen to a couple hundred feet above sea level because there sure as hell were no SUVs 100,000 years ago!

Is the earth getting warming? Yes, by a small amount. For how much longer? I don't know; in geological terms it's anyone's guess. We can assume that the current Quaternary period environment will persist, but we don't know it will persist. If it stops persisting, incidentally, it will probably not be determinable for a hell of a long time -- tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands or more years into the future. We'll all be long dead and so will our children, grandchildren and many generations yet to come.

In human life terms is the cycle about to end? Probably not, but that doesn't mean much since small fluctuations over the last half-million years or so -- 2 degrees Celsius or thereabouts -- have been pretty common and some of them have come very rapidly.

Are the odds that the next excursion will be down greater than up? The history of the Quaternary period says probably, but it's a bad bet simply because over short period of time the bet's bad no matter which way you take it. If the excursion is down it will kill a hell of a lot more people than some more warming will; we need only look to the last couple of those excursions for examples. While we have far better agricultural technology today we also have a hell of a lot more people on this rock relying on same. A 10% global casualty rate from a Maunder-minimum type of event is not at all unreasonable to expect.

Now let's look at the other evidence.

1. The "climate models" have thus far all been wrong. They all predicted both far greater temperature and sea level rises than have occurred. Wrong is wrong, end of discussion.

2. The data has been tampered with. That's not conjecture or belief it's fact. It was admitted to and when the source code break-in happened a few years ago I trivially found the "adjustments" they put into the code. That was intentional tampering, not an accident, and removing it removes the so-called "hockey stick."

3. The prediction of more and more-violent Atlantic hurricanes has been falsified. We were all told in the time of Ivan, Katrina and Wilma that we were in for those sorts of storms and even more-violent ones in the years to come. Well, it's been 11 years since a major hurricane hit the United States anywhere. Hermine hit Florida last year but it was a Cat 1 -- hardly anything to get excited about and an utterly routine event. During the early 2000s Cat 1s were about as common as cats around here to the point that I didn't bother doing much more than taking in the lawn furniture when one was approaching.

4. The 1880s were the most-violent decade for the United States in terms of hurricane impacts; 25 hit the nation. How many SUVs were in use in the 1880s? Since 2010 there have been six hurricane impacts; for comparison the decade of the 2000-2009 recorded 19. We are way behind the so-called prognosticators of doom.

5. The prediction of more and more-violent Tornadoes in the US has also been falsified. There has been no statistical increase and in fact of F3+ storms (the worst) there was much more activity in the 1950s and 60s than now, with several real doozy years -- two of which recorded over 100 of these extremely-violent storms. By comparison 2012, 2013 and 2014 clocked in under 30. While 2011 was a bad year for tornadoes it was hardly unprecedented -- 1973 recorded nearly as many. Again, there's no particular trend despite the claim that we would see more and more-violent storms of this nature as well.

6. The claims of "more and more-serious drought" sounded pretty good out in California right up until this winter when it snowed like a bitch. So much for that. We'll see if that's a one-off or not in the coming years.

In short all these claims have just been plain old-fashioned wrong.

Now let's look at the other side.

We've massively improved the number of people on this planet and roughly tripled life-expectancy -- almost-exactly correlated with the industrial extraction and consumption of carbon-based fuels. Would you like to give both of those up in exchange for, perhaps, a bit less warming but no fewer storms and a sea level that is continuing to rise?

Hmmmm.....

Oh, and let's assume that the sea level does continue to rise. Would you like to have the energy resources to move people and build barriers and employ other mitigating technologies when that occurs? Or would you like to give up those resources?

Without carbon-based energy there would be no trucks bringing food to stores. There would be no commercial agriculture; commercial fertilizer production requires natural gas as a feedstock and modern agricultural machinery runs on carbon-based fuels. Half the planet would not be alive because the people could not be fed without it. Life expectancy would be 20% or more reduced from what it is now for those who remain. When storms hit there would be no trucks to bring relief supplies including food and water -- thousands of people would die from thirst and disease caused by the inability to quickly repair power and water-processing infrastructure. Instead we count the dead after tornadoes and hurricanes on our fingers. I remind you that it wasn't that long ago -- before our efficient use of carbon-based fuels -- that we added several zeros to those counts.

So, on this "Earth Day" what do we have?

We have a bunch of screaming harpies that ignore actual science and lie for political purposes, but they sure as hell expect all the comforts of modern life -- a life that is inexorably powered by carbon-based fuels, directly and indirectly, like it or not.

Take away those fuels and there is no food in the grocery store, your car doesn't run, your Tesla can't be charged, your air conditioner doesn't work and neither does your furnace. Your lights work a couple of hours a day -- maybe. Your life expectancy is cut by 20 years or more because the first time you have an emergency there is no ambulance to come get you nor any advanced operating theater to fix the holes in you after some horrible accident. Disease is far more-prevalent than today and spreads like wildfire among any populated area since sanitation to modern standards is impossible. The very chlorine dioxide that keeps your drinking water safe is impossible to manufacture as it relies on methanol and sulfuric acid, both chemicals that require modern industrial processes to produce safely and in volume and the precursor (sodium chlorate) requires electrolysis of salt under controlled conditions. (PS: The emergency oxygen generator in an airliner that powers those drop-down masks, which incidentally requires carbon-based fuel to fly, also requires this material.)

Oh, and on the evidence the temperature will probably continue to go up a bit for a while, as will the sea level. Exactly when will the present cycle end and at what temperature rise? I have no idea, but end it will, probably after I'm long dead -- although it's always possible we get a major sunspot minimum in the next 5, 10 or 20 years and if we do things could get quite sporty -- on the cold side.

If you're dumb enough to be one of those marchers or "protesters" today then you have either a vacuum or granite between your ears. In either case you're stupid, dangerous or both -- and deserve to reap the consequences of your demands.

May that outcome visit you and not to the rest of us who actually believe in science.

THE MAIN QUESTIONS ARE WHO IS GETTING THE CASH FOR THIS PONZI SCHEME AND WHY HAVENT THE POWERS THAT BE TOLD US ABOUT THE COMING ICE AGE WHICH STARTED 3 YEARS AGO AND WILL BE IN FULL SWING BY 2025?
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