Posted on 09/29/2009 5:33:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
Climate: As alternate-energy champ Spain's green economy slides into recession, a German professor says if American "climate illiterates" don't follow, the Copenhagen climate conference will fail. And the bad news is?
King Canute, the Viking king of England, Norway and Denmark, was the legendary king whose sycophantic followers praised his power and wisdom. As the story goes, he once stood on the shore and commanded the waves to halt. Rather than exercising his ego, he in fact was giving his followers a lesson in reality the power of man over nature is finite and inconsequential.
In December, the world's kings and princes will journey to Copenhagen, Denmark, for climate change talks in hopes of replacing the failed Kyoto Protocol. Kyoto didn't change Earth's climate a wit, but it did burden the economy of any nation that embraced it.
Professor John Schellnhuber of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, an adviser to the German government, thinks Copenhagen may also be a failure, largely because the U.S. refuses to line up behind the rest of the climate lemmings and follow them over an economic cliff.
Speaking at an Oxford University climate science conference on Monday, Schellnhuber blamed the U.S. for a decade of inaction caused by President George W. Bush. Ironically, it was a decade where the sun grew quiet and the Earth cooled as result.
Yet, ignoring the empirical evidence, he says it's we American cowboys who are "climate illiterates" for actually looking at the Earth's thermometer and daring to notice the snow in Malibu.
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Took a quick look at it, seems worthy to spread around. (I have absolutely no association with it)
I think they are going to have a tough time explaining why the ice extent has been growing over the past few years at both poles and the Antarctica is near an all time high.
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/daily.html
Yeah. Check out
www.surfacestations.org
Bad data = bad policy.
The power of man over nature is finite and inconsequential
This is the most coherent statement on the subject to date!
If the eco-freaks, environmental fascists and masters of smart can prove different then have them do so first and get back to us with objective peer reviewed scientific proof
Thanks for the site.
Spain has an unemployment rate of 18.5%? Sounds good. The socialists are geniuses!
700 climate illiterates submit report to the Senate
The power of man over nature is finite and inconsequential
Interestingly, Palin made just this point in her last speech as Governor.
As alternate-energy champ Spain's green economy slides into recession, a German professor says if American "climate illiterates" don't follow, the Copenhagen climate conference will fail. And the bad news is? ...Professor John Schellnhuber of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, an adviser to the German government, thinks Copenhagen may also be a failure, largely because the U.S. refuses to line up behind the rest of the climate lemmings and follow them over an economic cliff. Speaking at an Oxford University climate science conference on Monday, Schellnhuber blamed the U.S. for a decade of inaction caused by President George W. Bush. Ironically, it was a decade where the sun grew quiet and the Earth cooled as result. Yet, ignoring the empirical evidence, he says it's we American cowboys who are "climate illiterates" for actually looking at the Earth's thermometer and daring to notice the snow in Malibu.
These people won’t go away until they are scraping snow off their windshields in July.
A solar minimum is here. It hasn’t bit them in their fingers and toes yet.
Maybe they will give George Bush the great credit for cross country skiing on the D.C. Grounds between the Washington Monument and the Capital.
They are the Chicken Littles of our day and unfortunately,... We are paying them a lot of tax dollars to be in charge.
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