THIS year is the 40th anniversary of Paul Ehrlich's influential The Population Bomb, a book that predicted an apocalyptic overpopulation crisis in the 1970s and '80s.
Ehrlich's book provides a lesson we still haven't learnt.
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The House of Representatives has presumably learned that money cannot buy love or happiness. Now, it turns out it's not a sure solution to climate guilt, either.
The global temperature has been stable since 1998 according to Ole Humlum at the University of Oslo. In the largest paper in Norway, he is stating that this stabilization can mean one of three things:
1. We have achieved a stable temperature
2. We have reached a "plateu" and rise again in a bit
3. We have reached a top in the global temperature, and it will soon start sinking again.
As a true scientist, Prof. Humlum says we do not have the knowledge of which one of these three alternatives will come to pass, but considering the fact that we have had an increase in CO2 concentration without a warming the last decade, the greenhouse theory should be considered debunked by now.
The dogmatics in Norway is stating that Humlum cannot use the record year of 1998 as a benchmark year, although they have no problem using the cool 1970's as the benchmark to prove that its getting warmer. I am not sure how they can throw out a decade's worth of stable temperature as benchmark related though.
Even though media in Norway has shunned the climate skeptics in Norway for a long time, but their media climate is finally warming up. A push for less campaign journalism by the Norwegian trade publication for reporters on the week of the Nobel Prize gala in Oslo is slowly changing the debate. I talked to Prof. Humlum a few weeks before the Nobel award, and he had several tales of editors that told him that his research was not welcome on their pages, now he has a full page story on the biggest newspaper in the country.
When Alexander Cockburn, author of the forthcoming book A Short History of Fear, dared to question the climate change consensus, he was punished by a tsunami of self-righteous fury. It is time for a free and open ‘battle of ideas’, he says.
The Environmental Protection Agency's chief defended before Congress today his decision to deny California and 15 other states the right to impose their own strict tailpipe emissions standards, calling it "common sense."
Paul Chesser, Climate Strategies Watch
Part of my work with Climate Strategies Watch is to inquire with various states about the status of their processes on global warming policy and to try and determine the nature of their relationship – if any – with the Center for Climate Strategies, an environmental advocacy group disguised as an objective management consultant.
The state of Idaho so far is one that has resisted hiring CCS and has yet to start a climate change commission of its own. But that doesn’t mean CCS has not tried to get its foot in the door, as revealed in an email exchange between executive director Tom Peterson and Idaho Department of Environmental Quality head Toni Hardesty. The excited memo sent by Peterson to Hardesty requires a bit of explanation, though:
Memo: “Toni, we want to congratulate you on the recent Executive Order by Governor (Butch) Otter calling for the development of an Idaho Climate Action Plan and related policies and assessments.”
Translation: “Yes, we love executive orders because it allows CCS to get its foot in the state’s door through its environmental bureaucracy, instead of having to make a case for action based upon valid science and real economics with a bunch of elected legislators.”
Memo: “We would be happy to support you with implementation of these actions through our CCS team. We may also be able to provide significant cost share through our existing base of donors given the importance of Idaho to regional and national management of greenhouse gas emissions.”
Translation: “Please hire us – please? We need to dupe more and more states into getting us to run their climate commissions so our Big Socialist advocacy grant makers will continue to fund us, and I can continue to justify my six-figure salary.”
Memo: “We would be happy to visit you, Governor Otter, and other key parties in Idaho to discuss this approach personally if it would be helpful. We also can provide you a detailed work plan and description of a (sic) Idaho Climate Action Planning process on short turnaround….”
Translation: “We have done this so many times we could do it in our sleep. Don’t sweat it, we know what we’re doing. Just close your eyes and leave the driving to us…."
News of a January 31 “teach-in” on more than 1,000 college campuses nationwide strikes me of just one more example of the growing desperation of the environmental movement that has bet its credibility and influence on global warming.
Mark your calendar for any news about a March 2-4 conference in New York that is expected to draw between 400 and 500 global warming skeptics, i.e., scientists, economists, and policy experts.
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