Hilarious: Climate countdown: Half a trillion tonnes of carbon left to burn - JunkScience.com -- Steven Milloy, Publisher

The experts say about half a trillion tonnes of carbon have been consumed since the industrial revolution. To prevent a 2C rise, they say, the total burnt must be kept to below a trillion tonnes. On current rates, that figure will be reached in 40 years. (The Guardian)

Boy they make up some goodies. It's not too hard to see how they came up with this particular magic number:

* Using 5.137 x 1018 kg as the mass of the atmosphere (Trenberth, 1981 JGR 86:5238-46), 1 ppmv of CO2 = 2.13 Gt of carbon.
* Approximately half annual anthropogenic emissions have been accumulating in the atmosphere (we think, while people have been paying close attention) so 500 Gt * 0.5 / 2.13 = ~117 ppmv CO2.
* Current level ~385 + hypothetical accumulation of ~115 = magic number 600 ppmv (commonly used in calculations of 2xCO2).

Ta da! Nice round figure -- humans can only "afford" to oxidize another 500 Gt of carbon to escape another dreaded (and equally meaningless) number.

I wonder how much time, effort and funding was thrown into developing this nonsense figure? One which we managed with one reference look up and a few keystrokes in an already open spreadsheet, by the way.

This farce just gets worse by the day.

Christopher Monckton - Lies, Damned Lies and Al Gore on Climate

Conclusion: All of Gore’s points are at best significant exaggerations, at worst wholly false. In some instances, it can be proven that Gore is wilfully mendacious – particularly where he repeats errors that have been condemned by the High Court in London after acceptance on the part of Her Majesty’s Government, to which Gore is a climate advisor, that the errors identified by the judge were indeed errors.

No serious legislature could found any policy on anything that Gore says about the climate. He is not a credible witness and should be disregarded.

Monckton of Brenchley 24 April 2009

Glikson flicked | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Dr Andrew Glikson, the Australian National University warming alarmist who likens sceptics to ”parasites”, went through my 10 Global Myths to prove I was wrong, wrong wrong.

It was such a bizarrely weak effort that:

A. I relaxed, thinking that if this was the worst that could be said about my piece, I had nothing to fear.

B. I laughed, thinking that if this was the best that could be said about global warming theory by one of our leading alarmists, the whole house of cards was just one more puff from collapse.

I couldn’t be bothered replying to Glikson myself, thinking his failure to disprove me simply spoke for itself. But former MP Dr Jon Jenkins has not been so merciful. Read on for his forensic destruction of Glikson’s responses to the myths I’d identified, point by point. And ask at the end what it says about global warming and our universities that Glikson holds the position he does...