Are Trees Revolting Over “Climate Change”, Or Just Confirming The Pause?

By William Teach September 24, 2015 – 7:43 am

The obvious answer seems to miss members of the Cult Of Climastrology

Global warming: are trees going on strike?

Trees, crucial absorbers of climate-harming carbon dioxide gas, may finally be balking at an ever-earlier spring season brought on by global warming, researchers said Wednesday.

Over the past several decades, trees across central Europe have been steadily sprouting their spring leaves earlier in response to warmer temperatures, they said.

As a result, forests absorbed more carbon dioxide in a longer growing season — a boon that has been worked into global warming projections.

But a study published in the science journal Nature said trees have slowed their pace of seasonal advance — raising fears it may stop altogether.

Oh, noes, doom!

Forests play an important role in stemming global warming by absorbing carbon dioxide — the most abundant greenhouse gas — from the atmosphere.

We could probably stop right there, after that massive whopper. The most abundant greenhouse gas is water vapor.

In real life, they found, leaf-sprouting happened steadily earlier over two study periods: 1980-1994 and 1999-2013 — about 13 days overall over the past three decades.

But when the scientists compared the two terms, they noticed the advance of earlier sprouting had slowed by 40 percent in 1999-2013.

“We found the response (to earlier spring) has declined over the past three decades, and strong winter warming may further reduce it,” said Yongshuo.

Might there be another explanation? Could it be that the trees themselves are responding appropriately to the latest Pause? The time frames match almost perfectly, where there was a spike in temperatures from 1980-1996, then a pause since. Perhaps we should be listening to the trees when they tell us that members of the Cult of Climastrology are alarmist fools.

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Fish Wrap: Middle East Security Necessary Now That Iran’s Getting Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars

By William Teach September 24, 2015 – 7:05 am

The New York Times Editorial Board publishes an editorial that is truly worthy of only wrapping stinky, dead fish. They’re super enthused by the Iran deal, thumbing their noses at Republicans and those few Democrats who wanted to kill it (and still could, if Mitch McConnell had a spine), but, still, inadverdently tell us a few reasons the deal should be killed

Israel and America After the Iran Deal

Now that congressional Democrats have blocked a Republican effort to kill the Iran nuclear deal, attention is shifting to what America must do to reassure Israel and its American supporters that the agreement will not harm Israel’s security.

Increased cooperation between America and its regional partners, including the Arab gulf states as well as Israel, is vital to ensuring that Iran sticks to the deal, which curbs its nuclear program in return for sanctions relief. America and its partners need to find ways to keep Iran from using billions of dollars, which were frozen in overseas banks but are due to be released, to expand its use of proxies like Hezbollah to stir trouble abroad.

Huh. So, first, the NYTEB admits that the deal only curbs Iran’s nuclear weapons aspirations, not stops it. Big admission.

Second, they’re tacitly admitting that this deal makes the Middle East a more dangerous place with the deal, and puts Israel directly in the crosshairs of Iran’s support of terrorists. Hooray, #IranDeal!

Democrats and the White House are negotiating some sort of aid package to Israel and other ME nations. One would think that this would go nowhere, considering who controls Congress, but, hey, Mitch McConnell and other squishy Republicans.

Then a little Israel Derangement Syndrome

The focus on America’s obligations often ignores the responsibility Israel and the gulf states have for regional security. Saudi Arabia shares much blame for the rise of extremist groups, while Israel undermines stability by failing to negotiate peace with the Palestinians.

There’s the canard about Israel being to blame for the violence of Palestinians, helpfully forgetting the number of times Israel has made offers, only to have Palestinians blow them off, demand much more, and/or violate them with attacks on Israel’s civilian population.

In the end, what’s most important for Israel’s security is the relationship with the United States. Those ties were put at risk by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and congressional Republicans, who polarized the debate over the Iran deal. A crucial sense of trust needs to be rebuilt. It is unclear that this can happen soon, no matter how many promises of aid and cooperation America makes to Israel.

Au contraire, it’s Obama’s shabby treatment of Israel as an ally and Netanyahu personally that has put the ties at risk. But, none of this would matter all that much if the Iran deal didn’t enable Iran to ramp up its support of terrorism in the Middle East, and specifically against Israel, through removal of sanctions and a massive inflow of cash.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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PETA Sues To Give Monkey Copyright To Selfies

By William Teach September 23, 2015 – 2:54 pm

I wish this was The Onion or some satire site. Alas, no

(AP) A macaque monkey who took now-famous selfie photographs should be declared the copyright owner of the photos, rather than the nature photographer who positioned the camera, animal-rights activists contend in a novel lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The suit was filed in federal court in San Francisco by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. It seeks a court order allowing PETA to administer all proceeds from the photos for the benefit of the monkey, which it identified as 6-year-old Naruto, and other crested macaques living in a reserve on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

The photos were taken during a 2011 trip to Sulawesi by British nature photographer David Slater. Through San Francisco-based self-publishing company Blurb, he has published a book called “Wildlife Personalities” that includes the “monkey selfie” photos.

In a sane world, the article would have ended with a fourth paragraph reading “The judge told PETA to STFU and GTFO, on pain of jail to for contempt and wasting the court’s time, at which point the judge directed the bailiff to escort the PETA representatives out of the building”. But, no, this story is actually 20 paragraphs long. For a monkey selfie.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 23, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…are wonderful trees sucking in carbon pollution from Everyone Else, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bookworm Room, with a post on the enemy whose name we dare not speak.

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Hotcoldwetdry Could Cost The World Trillions Or Something

By William Teach September 23, 2015 – 10:06 am

Unless we instituted massive government intervention and carbon trading schemes, of course

Climate Change Could Cost The World Trillions More Than We Thought
All is not lost, researchers warn, but we need to act swiftly.

The gross domestic product of the United States was nearly $17.5 trillion in 2014. That’s enough money to buy all the planet’s gold two times over.

Now consider this: If the world’s permafrost thaws, as a new study warns, humanity could be saddled with a bill that adds more than $43 trillion to the already massive climate-related debt the world will rack up in the next two centuries.

$43,000,000,000,000.

You can do the math yourself, but that’s more than two-and-a-half times America’s GDP and an economic death sentence “beyond conception,” says Kevin Schaefer, a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center and one of the authors of the report.

The report, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, looks at a previously underexamined contributor to global climate change: the permafrost, or the region of permanently frozen ground that occurs in the world’s coldest places.

This overwrought, hysterical, doomy prognostication is quickly being disseminated (just a few of the links) around the Lefty media with hyperventilating apoplexy. And what is the fix?

But all is not lost. Schaefer pointed to his co-author’s area of expertise, public policy, and said policy change could still spur humans to slow down climate change to the best of their ability.

In December, hundreds of foreign leaders and scientists will convene in Paris for the U.N. climate summit and attempt to hash out a global strategy to address rising seas, warming temperatures and the unchecked release of greenhouse gases around the globe. Many worry the talks may be the “last chance” for action if the planet is to remain below the agreed-upon warming ceiling of 2 degrees Celsius.

Is this the same summit for which 10000 or so will take long fossil fueled trips and live the high life? Anyhow, it’s interesting that every policy prescription amounts to the same thing, more government and taxation, all based on more “computer models”. It’s almost like this is all about a push for far left Progressive policies or something.

BTW, what’s the over/under on a good Gore Effect for the Paris Conference on the Parties?

 

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Cult Of Climastrology Pinpoints Exactly When Global Warming Started Or Something

By William Teach September 23, 2015 – 8:39 am

No, really. Their models tell them so

(UK Daily Mail) This year is tipped to be the hottest on record as global temperatures continue to soar.

Now researchers have revealed for the first time when and where signs of this global warming first appeared in historical temperature records.

Using readings dating back as far as the 1870s, the researchers detected what they believe to be the first signs as early as the 1940s in parts of Australia, south east Asia and Africa.

What they are referring to is man-caused global warming, also known as AGW, anthropogenic global warming. Interestingly, the period of the 1940’s was part of a pause that lasted into the late 1970’s, which even featured cooling, which led to the freakout as to whether the world was moving towards a new ice age. Anyhow, if we saw the fingerprints of AGW then, what of the warming trend from the mid-1800’s to late 1800’s? And that of the around 1910-1940?

Rather inconvenient.

The study, by a team from Australia’s Arc Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science and the University of Reading, gives an insight into the global impacts that have already been felt by global warming, even at an early stage and possible effects that will be seen in the future, such as extreme rainfall.

To work out when global warming started, the team analysed changes in average temperature.

They created 23 models based on temperature data to study past and future trends.

And they found exactly what they were looking for, and this must be Blamed On Mankind. According to their models.

What caused the early temperature spikes? What caused the pauses/cooling periods?

Anthony Watts notes

From the UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES (via Eurekalert) and the “Where’s Waldo?” department comes this hilarious claim. Why hilarious? Because the headline says “global warming”, yet the research says that warming appeared in different decades in different parts of the world. So much for the “global” part. But, it gets better, the money quote says the USA isn’t conforming to the expected warming signal, but, “…according to the models but it is expected they will appear in the next decade.”

True. How can it be “global” when they’re only seeing things locally? He also notes that the actual paper is based on a simulation, rather than real world, and that “Model output is not the actual temperature record.” If you hit the link, you’ll see that this simulation goes out to 2060. I may not be great at remembering specific dates, but, by my reckoning, we’re pretty far off from 2060, and we don’t actually have data from 2016 on.

That all said, even if the simulation is right, it still wouldn’t prove anthropogenic causation, which is what the debate is about.

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SJWs Have Now Come For Kiss-Cam In Syracuse

By William Teach September 23, 2015 – 8:11 am

Personally, I do not care for kiss-cam at sporting events. What’s supposed to be a cute thing during commercial breaks, and usually is, can turn into a cringe worthy effort when the camera focuses on two people who shouldn’t be kissing. Like this

But, it’s usually just silly fun. Not so in Syracuse

(Fox News) Syracuse University is considering kissing its kiss cam goodbye after a fan suggested it sends the wrong message at a time when colleges are fighting against campus sexual violence.

A regular feature at sports venues, the kiss cam frames unsuspecting couples in a heart on the Jumbotron while the game crowd cheers for them to kiss. Hearts melted when cancer-stricken former President Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn obliged during an Atlanta Braves game last week.

But Steve Port of Manlius said what he saw during the Sept. 12 football game between Syracuse University and Wake Forest constituted unacceptable behavior, and maybe even assault, as men forcibly kissed women who were clearly saying no.

In one of two examples, he said a woman’s head shake was met with “no less than six sets of hands from the seats around her shov(ing) her unwilling face into his.” The crowd cheered, he wrote in a letter to the editor, which generated hundreds of comments on Syracuse.com, both agreeing and disagreeing with him.

“Honestly, I wasn’t out to kill the kiss cam,” Port said by phone Tuesday. “I was just out to raise an important issue that I saw happening and that’s important to me. I’ve always kind of been a little put off by it anyway, but never witnessed an actual act of — oh, my God, this woman is saying no and it didn’t matter.”

Unfortunately, in this day and age, when someone is out to raise and Important Issue because they were Offended, you can expect an over the top reaction, certainly on Liberal college campuses, run by liberals with all sorts of uber-liberal teachers and students. In this case, considering the killing of the kiss-cam.

What used to be considered just tom-foolery, perhaps inappropriate, is now considered an Important Issue of sexual assault, and Things Must Change. The kiss-cam was pulled Saturday’s game, and the university is in Deep Discussion over whether it comes back or not.

Syracuse University senior Elaina Crockett suggested the university poll students on whether to keep the feature or come up with some kiss cam rules, including moving on quickly if someone obviously doesn’t want to play along.

That actually makes some sense. Move on quickly.

Crockett, who writes a column about gender and sexuality for The Daily Orange student newspaper, said that otherwise it’s counter to today’s emphasis on affirmative consent that stresses communication and respect for boundaries as a way to reduce campus sexual assaults.

And then it’s turned into an Important Issue.

How are all these snowflakes going to last in the Real World?

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Hillary Opposes Keystone XL Because It’s A Distraction Or Something

By William Teach September 22, 2015 – 5:40 pm

Let’s not forget that the State Department came out with numerous papers during Hillary’s time in office that basically said there was no problem with Keystone XL. Anyhow, this is about as nuanced as a position gets

(The Blaze) Hillary Clinton said at an Iowa rally Tuesday that she opposes the Keystone XL pipeline.

The Democratic frontrunner called the issue a “distraction” from the global warming conversation and, therefore, said she doesn’t support it.

“I think it is imperative that we look at the keystone pipeline as what I believe it is, a distraction from important work we have to do on climate change,” Clinton said at the Des Moines event, “Therefore I oppose it.”

Yup, that’s about as meaningless as it gets with Clinton.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 22, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike which Everyone Else should be forced to use to reduce desertification, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post wondering if Islam is the religion of whining narcissists.

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Climate Change Is Totally Like The Lord Of The Rings Or Something

By William Teach September 22, 2015 – 10:25 am

Remember when Warmists were saying that Game Of Thrones was really all about being a metaphor for “climate change”? Now we have

‘The Lord of the Rings’ reimagined as climate catastrophe — in GIFs

A planet in potential devastation — a dark power dangles within reach and tantalizes humans to the point of valuing increased personal opulence over the survival of all. Few stewards fight to maintain peace, while the plague of human obsession for abundance and domination spreads across the land.

The masses remain naïve to the situation, while an equal amount believe their actions won’t make a difference in the play out of good versus evil. The sky darkens. The earth crumbles beneath. The only chance of survival depends upon the kindling of hope burning in the hearts of the beings of Middle Earth.

Sound familiar? That may be because it is a synopsis of “The Lord of the Rings,” or it may be because the LOTR story line is starting to fit our global reality. The unfolding evil manifesting from the great ring of power in LOTR parallels the devastation in our reality inflicted by powerful institutions/organizations on the natural world and in turn humanity.

Here are five reasons why LOTR well represents our world under climate change conditions.

You’ll have to pop over to the link to see those 5, Fair Use, standard Blog Rules, and just simple respect of the writings of others prohibits me from jacking the whole post, but I do enjoy this part in #1

We each have the same individual choice to make by being conscious consumers, giving up simple luxuries and getting educated about the impacts of our waste.

Funny, because the vast majority of Warmists refuse to make those individual choices to reduce their own consumption of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral, or as close to CN as can be. I guess that makes them the Evil Orcs.

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