John Bittman column: Global warming reaction is nonsense

What's remarkable to me is that there is an almost-religious fervor attached to global warming, when any churl would see that it's global baloney. Politicians at Kyoto and Copenhagen were trying to spend trillions of dollars based on science that any churl would know is nonsense.

Politicians who lined up to support global warming by voting for cap and trade, and the loons at the Environmental Protection Agency who have named carbon dioxide as a poisonous gas, have two things in common. They are idiots and they should be removed.

In summary, global warming existed from about 1650 until 1998. Humans were not the cause, ever. Anyone who says differently is after your money, a hoaxer, a pathological liar or all of the above — at least in this churl's opinion.

The Reference Frame: Roy Spencer: feedbacks seem to erase most of warming

The figures 6 or 10 W/m^2/°C lead to something like 0.5 or 0.3 °C warming per CO2 doubling, well below the 3 °C "best estimate" of the IPCC. If this figure were true, the observed 20th century warming would already be greater than the effect of doubling. That would mean that by 2100, we should expect a slight cooling because the total warming has already "overshot" the calculated CO2-induced warming - and we may expect the natural warming (which was a part of the observed one) to be undone.

Dr Rajendra Pachauri and the IPCC - No Fossil Fool | Originals

Much has been written over recent months about the enigmatic Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC), Dr Rajendra K Pachauri. He has been labeled a crook and a fraudster by some, because of his extensive interests in companies that stand to benefit from carbon trading, but those searching for direct and actionable evidence of wrong-doing will be disappointed.

What they will find is someone who has used his position as IPCC Chairman to attract major funding to his own organization, The Energy and Resources Institute2 (TERI), known previously (and concurrently by some), as the Tata Energy Research Institute.  [Full report here]

Speaking of Pachauri, his blog seems to have gone away

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