UN Calls for Global “Revolution” Led by “Central Governments”
Carbon Tax Could Come After Fiscal Cliff Deal
Global Warming on Free Republic
In March 1988, a few months before NASA's James Hansen asserted before the Congress that global warming was in progress, the New York Times quoted him as saying that he used 59 degrees Fahrenheit as the average global temperature to calculate the temperature variations......
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.....The IPCC too now uses 14 degrees Celsius as its base temperature, as can be seen from a graph that is part of its 2007 document. (As an aside, it was in 2007 that IPCC won the Nobel Peace Prize. IPCC certainly deserved a Nobel Prize, but it should have been for literature, as the organization had excelled in writing fantasy.)
More recently, a 2011 report by the Government Accountability Office attributes an estimated average surface air temperature of 287 K, or 14 degrees Celsius, to James Hansen and his colleagues.
But Hansen and colleagues have estimated that Earth's actual average surface air temperature between 1951 and 1980 was approximately 287 K (14 degrees Celsius) (Hansen et al. 2010).
It is hard to pinpoint the exact date when the change from 15 degrees to 14 degrees was introduced. It most likely happened sometime in 1997, and definitely no later than January of 1998.
The 1998 edition of the annual publication of Worldwatch Institute uses 14 degrees Celsius as the global average temperature and provides details of how it was informed of the change from 15 degrees Celsius. On page 69 of the report, a footnote below the table listing the global average temperatures for several years states:
Base number is 1 degree Celsius lower than in earlier Vital Signs.
On page 174 of the same report, we see the explanation for the change.
In earlier versions of Vital Signs, Worldwatch added the temperature change reported by the Goddard Institute to an estimated global temperature of 15 degrees Celsius, but the institute has since informed Worldwatch that a better base number would be 14 degrees Celsius. James Hansen, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, email to author, 18 January 1998.
In other words, James Hansen sent word that 14 is the new 15.
“A tax on carbon dioxide would also be seen by politicians as a way to offset our severe budget deficit and staggering national debt. It would be sold to the American public in the name of saving the planet.”
People have to want to be led by the nose to believe that the earth needs us to save it.
$6 TRILLION in debt transfers maybe a drop in the bucket.
2016 can’t get here soon enough.......
Share the love, people.
At what point do we break out the pitchforks and torches?
Doha would be a bunch of tents if it wasn’t for natural gas. Let’s have the Qatari pay for the CO2 right up front and take the money out of their cut of the pie. Better yet, let’s take off and nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
UN Calls for Global “Revolution” Led by “Central Governments”
Carbon Tax Could Come After Fiscal Cliff Deal
Global Warming on Free Republic
UN Calls for Global “Revolution” Led by “Central Governments”
Carbon Tax Could Come After Fiscal Cliff Deal
Global Warming on Free Republic
I guess we’ll spread money borrowed from China.
We could use a little global warming right about now.