Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Scumbags: Our nastiest, most relentlessly negative political voices - seattlepi.com

--Climate Depot:  Emerging from this web site are attacks, often crude but sometimes sophisticated, designed to create doubt about climate change.  In charge is a former aide to Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, who pronounced global warming a "hoax."

The site deploys scattergun attacks.  It sneers at "power elites" and such prominent greens as ex-Vice President Al Gore and actor Leonardo DiCaprio.  (Big Oil and Big Coal are apparently not part of these "elites".) It debunks public investment in alternative technologies ("green failures").  It suggests, against all evidence compiled by the U.N. and NOAA, that the Arctic ice pack is not shrinking and "Global Cooling Coming?"

Rajan's Take: Climate Change: Arctic environment by the middle of this Century

At around 2040-2050 we will be in a new major Solar Minimum. It is to be expected that we will then have a new “Little Ice Age” over the Arctic and NW Europe. The past Solar Minima were linked to a general speeding-up of the Earth’s rate of rotation. This affected the surface currents and southward penetration of Arctic water in the North Atlantic causing “Little Ice Ages” over northwestern Europe and the Arctic.

Dr. James E. Hansen

Jan. 30, 2012: Cowards in Our Democracies, Part 2:
How "think tanks" help "work" our democracies for the benefit of the few. [Hansen in this PDF: "Every year fossil fuels kill about 1,000,000 people."]

1 comment:

Brian French said...

and keeps about 3 billion people from starving or freezing to death...