Carbon dioxide: The “gas of life”
Obama Bypassing Congress with Climate Agenda
Global Warming on Free Republic
Posted on 08/28/2013 1:52:41 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
ERICE, SICILY – It’s official. The scare is over. The World Federation of Scientists, at its annual seminars on planetary emergencies, has been advised by its own climate monitoring panel that global warming is no longer a planetary emergency.
The President of the Italian Senate, Judge Pietro Grasso, who was the judge in Sicily’s first maxiprocesso, a class-action prosecution of dozens of Mafiosi who were sent to prison for a total of 2600 years, gave the magistral lecture at the opening plenary session of the seminars, which ended this week.
Both Judge Grasso and the President of the Federation, Professor Antonino Zichichi, said that care should be taken to examine carefully the basis for concern about CO2 emissions as well as the relevance and cost-effectiveness of proposed mitigation measures.
Last year’s magistral lecture to the Federation was by Professor Vaclav Klaus, then president of the Czech Republic, whose talk was entitled The manmade contribution to global warming is not a planetary emergency.
President Klaus had said: “Current as well as realistically foreseeable global warming, and especially Man’s contribution to it, is not a planetary emergency which should bother us. … My reading both of the available data and of conflicting scientific arguments and theories allows me to argue that it is not global warming caused by human activity that is threatening us.”
This year Dr. Christopher Essex, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario and chairman of the Federation’s permanent monitoring panel on climate, gave the Federation’s closing plenary session his panel’s confirmation that “Climate change in itself is not a planetary emergency.”
Professor Essex pointed out that history had shown illegitimate political movements inventing false emergencies to bypass democratic constraints on their quest for absolute power.
The Earth’s climate, he said, is a dynamic and continually-changing system. “Human societies have lived and thriven under every conceivable climate, and modern technology makes adaptation to changing weather conditions entirely routine.”
The increasing fraction of CO2 in the air could be expected to result in some warming, but it had been accepted that “the benefits of food production and the relief of starvation overwhelm concerns about the potential climate changes induced by land-surface modification.” He said the panel thought it essential to ask whether similar reasoning applied to global fossil-energy production.
On behalf of the climate monitoring panel, Professor Essex also spoke up for scientists who have been bullied, threatened or even dismissed for having dared to question the Party Line on climate. He said: “Our greatest concern at present is that the intellectual climate for scientific investigation of these matters has become so hostile and politicized that the necessary research and debate cannot freely take place.
“Political constraints take the form of declaring the underlying science to be settled when it clearly is not; defunding or denigrating research that is perceived to threaten the case for renewable energy; or the use of odious pejoratives like “denialist” to describe dissent from officially-sanctioned views on climate science.”
Professors Bob Carter and Murry Salby, who had questioned the severity of Man’s influence on the climate, were both ejected by their universities this year.
Professor Essex called for “free and open debate on all aspects of climate science, even where hypotheses are put forward for examination that openly contradict the official positions of political entities.”
He said the panel found persuasive indications that climate models systematically understated natural climate variability and significantly exaggerated the impact of CO2 emissions. Accordingly, past, present and proposed policy measures could be shown not to provide net benefits to society regardless of the rate at which the planet might warm. Limited resources would be better devoted to more pressing issues.
Well, now that our own government has officially declared ITS OWN UN-Inquistion that "Global Warming Cannot be Discussed" ....
Who are the real scientists?
Note: This is in the form of a knowledgeable person reporting "live" in print from Italy on the presentation of a formal report to the Italian leadership (in their equal to the upper house). It IS a "Big Deal" in terms of the meaning.
Now, whether our own socialist government will listen is "deniable" by all means: Pelosi, Obama, the DOE, DOD, Dept of Interior, EPA< NOAA, NASA-GISS, NSIDC, etc, etc, etc do not to hear this, to listen to it, nor to resepct it.
What our government does emphatically "deny" in other words, is the real world: Temperatures have been "Flat" (not increasing) for almost 200 months now (a little over 15 years on EVERY temperature record available land, air, space, and sea) while CO2 has risen almost 15%.
Oh no . . . the whole liberal world view is collapsing as we speak . . . the Harvard study that gun control doesn’t stop gun violence, and now this that global warming is not a threat? What’s a chicken little chicken stuff liberal to do now?
Get ready for MASS SUICIDES!”Global Warming”IS THEIR RELIGION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The President of the Italian Senate, Judge Pietro Grasso, who was the judge in Sicily’s first maxiprocesso, a class-action prosecution of dozens of Mafiosi who were sent to prison for a total of 2600 years
The anthropogenic global warming deniers have rallied and turned the tide of public opinion in at least one venue.
More importantly, it is in a venue that already has economic problems, and appropriations for covering the “effects” of this falsely framed cause of global warming (oops, meant “Climate Change”) are just beyond their means at present.
Reality has intruded upon the fevered imaginations of the devotees of “warmism”.
The Chicken Littles will be forced back to claiming sexism, racism and homophobia as the source of grief in the world today.
The important thing is that Al Gore first made a billion dollars on the global warming racket before it was exposed. What a cottage industry that turned out to be!
“...global warming is no longer a planetary emergency.”
Actually, it never was.
Exactly!
Just another leftwing marxist/socialist/communist scam to redistribute wealth.
on the blog, a respondent by the name of Henry Galt gave everyone a link to a 2012 presentation by the Canadian representative to the conference
it was a great presentation of the science of what is presently wrong with “climate science”, the many assumptions in climate science, assumptions in the science community and assumptions on the part of the public, with
primarily the assumption that the non-linear dynamic and chaotic complexity of earth climate can - by any means we have - be explained in absolute terms as to predict any future climate - it can’t
not with the most sophisticated computers and most sophisticated programs can we understand, in absolute terms, the non-linear dynamic chaotic complexity of earth climate and all that affects it
in short, the big lie of the man-made global warming folks is that humans, any humans, can fully explain in absolute terms the non-linear chaotic complexity that drives earth’s climate to the point of being able to predict where it will go - that is the really big lie - THEY CAN’T DO IT - more so than the small lie of their faulty predictions
what is the big error of the public? the belief that science CAN produce absolute answers for everything; it can’t.
Not that so-called “progressives” care.
I thought that was obvious on the face of it. I’m not a brilliant scientist and can’t explain it in esoteric terms. I’m just a numbskull who knows that the weather forecast 3 days out is never correct in detail.
The complex chaotic nature of earth’s climate, as you cite, is intuitively beyond man’s ability to predict in the short term — say a single week or month — let alone years and decades into the future.
This is just obvious on the face of it, to me.
I don’t think I’m out of line when I think of what Jesus said (in a different context, but still his point spoken):
John 3:8
The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.
So is Man’s foolishness to try to predict the weather.
“what is the big error of the public? the belief that science CAN produce absolute answers for everything; it can’t.”
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
I decided long ago that the year over year changes reported were far too small to be credible. I just do not believe that anyone can measure the temperature of the entire Earth that accurately.
Thriven. Love it.
Carbon dioxide: The “gas of life”
Obama Bypassing Congress with Climate Agenda
Global Warming on Free Republic
This is a good wiki on 1893.
ManBearPig would be wise to know history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1893_Atlantic_hurricane_season
Apparently, the debate is over.
Paging Algore. Paging Algore. Pick up the white phone in the lobby.
But, but, but what about Al Gore's scam? How will he make money now? How will dems scare voters?
“I just do not believe that anyone can measure the temperature of the entire Earth that accurately.”
what is more important is that scientifically we cannot
estimate what climate will be/change to over any great length of time; such estimations are not scientifically possible;
the non-lineral complex chaos of the total variables in what affects climate makes such estimates beyound our ability to derive any certainty as to what climate will become at any significant distance ahead in time
the BEST scientists predicting future climate are no better than the Wizard of Oz, and like the WiZard of Oz they are pretending they have powers (powers of scientific certainty) that they do not have;
WHY
because it requires mathematics and ALL the best mathematicians admit they have no math to solve with certainty ANY non-linear complex chaos situation - the kind of situation that climate represents (there’s no math for it)
“This is just obvious on the face of it, to me.”
I have always thought the same as you on that.
What was great about the talk the scientist from Canada gave was that based on science itself he explains why science itself knows you and I are right. That is the part that is great when the big brains are trying to tell the dummies like you and me that we don’t know what we’re talking about, that we just don’t understand “climate science”.
This guy lays out why and how its not about “climate science”. He lays out in scientific terms how some “climate scientists” cannot know what they claim to know, because we humans have no math for predicting with certainty the future in ANY non-linear complex chaos situation, no matter whether that situation is the climate or anything else. Our math cannot solve it and it is math that such predictions depend on. It is not junk science because of what they know or don’t know about climate; it’s junk science because predicting the futute of ANY non-linear complex chaotic situation is no better than using a crystall ball.
We now have a scientific reference point to the argument that we are not as knowledgeable about the climate as the “climate scientists”. We don’t need to be. Mathematics is what is needed to answer the question and mathematics is not on their side.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.