Climate Change

Two Videos from “Real Climate Science”

Climate Change / June 4, 2019
June 3rd 2019
 After 5 months of winter, a cold and wet spring, a week after Memorial day (the unofficial begining of summer) it is presently 45 degrees F. at my house. And it’s cold wet and miserable.

Climate change a.k.a global warming has been nothing but a scam bases solely to further Cultural Marxism,  Progressivism and Socialism. The political party formally known as the Democrat Party has been totally co-opted by the far left and bears no resemblance to the party of JFK.

It really has become the ‘Democrat Socialist  Party’ and Climate change is but one of the three legs of its platform (the other two being free healthcare/education and gun control) to gain and establish absolute political power to ‘enforce’ their rule in perpetuity.

But also as a consequence Millennials are Not saving money for the future because they have drank the kool-aid and believe there won’t be one.

The only thing it’s based on are computer models which have been consistantly wrong for the past 45 years.

It’s all Bull-Crap to turn America into the next Venezuela where the self appointed elites rule, and citizens become vassals. 

 

Does A.O.C. have a time machine??

Climate Change, Green New Deal / April 19, 2019

 

Well, I have a Question.

It’s the Year 2031. What has become of those millions of deplorable people who failed to show enough”enthusiasm” to saving the planet and did not appreciate exchanging their freedom for “free education and free healthcare”?

Maybe our fate was something like this. After all climate deniers do belong in jail.
It was discussed At the highest levels.

Many days many lives part 6-10

 

The Pied Piper of Socialism and “Skulls full of Mush”

Climate Change, Socialism / March 20, 2019

The Children’s Crusade to “Save the Planet”.

  

Obviously indoctrination works,  because climate change is a hoax.  

Middlebury, Vermont and and all over the world.

“This movement had to happen, we didn’t have a choice. The vast majority of climate strikers taking action today aren’t allowed to vote. Imagine for a second what that feels like. Despite watching the climate crisis unfold, despite knowing the facts, we aren’t allowed to have a say in who makes the decisions about climate change. And then ask yourself this: wouldn’t you go on strike too, if you thought doing so could help protect your own future?”

Greta Thunberg a teenager from Sweden has become famous for instigating a world wide youth climate movement.

On 24 November 2018, she spoke at TEDxStockholm.[13][14][6] She spoke about realising, when she was eight years old, that climate change existed and wondering why it was not headline news on every channel, as if there was a world war going on. She said she did not go to school to become a climate scientist, as some suggested, because the science was done and only denial, ignorance and inaction was remaining. Speculating that her children and grandchildren would ask her why they had not taken action in 2018 when there was still time, she concluded with “we can’t change the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.”[15]

Oh yes, the science is settled and what rules are we talking about Greta?

On 23 January 2019, Thunberg arrived in Davos after a 32-hour train journey,[19] in contrast to the many delegates who arrived by up to 1,500 individual private jet flights,[20] to continue her climate campaign at the World Economic Forum.[21][22] She told a Davos panel “Some people, some companies, some decision makers in particular have known exactly what priceless values they have been sacrificing to continue making unimaginable amounts of money. I think many of you here today belong to that group of people.“[23] Later in the week, she warned the global leaders that “Our house is on fire” adding “I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. We owe it to the young people, to give them hope.”[24][25

Yes, yes root out those who are only “pretending”.

These “Children” believe that they are “saving their future”. They do not have a clue.  If the insanity of the Green New Deal were to become the law of the land these little squirts can kiss their freedom, and lifestyle goodbye.

This movement grew so fast because the leftest political machine (Marxist, socialist,communist, take your pick) which control academia (indoctrination) and the media (propaganda) on both sides of the Atlantic. 

Human beings have only two ways to deal with each other: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it. 

This applies also between Government and the Governed .  Government passes laws that require enforcement in which the threat of FORCE…drawn guns, arrest, fines, imprisonment is utilized.

According to A.O.C.  Al Gore and the I.P.C.C.  we only have 12 years to save the planet.

That can only be accomplished via top down Totalitarian government.  Libs are trying to say that the “G.N.D.” would be implemented like F.D.R.’s New Deal.

Being that we have a world full of frightened children and millennials I’m afraid that it would have to be like Stalin’s Five Year Plans.  Where the ends will justify any means. Because it’s saving the planet we’re talking about.

 

Marching to the Brave New World.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where is Pol Pot when you need him.

Climate Change, deranged Libs / February 12, 2019

Vermont’s environmentalist should be ashamed of themselves.

Vermont has set itself a goal of using 90% renewable energy by 2050.

In Dec. of 2011.

Governor Peter Shumlin, Public Service Commissioner Elizabeth Miller and other administration officials today released the final Comprehensive Energy Plan, which recommends that Vermont strive to obtain 90 percent of our total energy from renewable sources by 2050, largely eliminating Vermont’s reliance on fossil fuels by mid-century.

But a comprehensive energy plan written by developed by the Dept. of  Public Service in 2016 was by June 2018 already falling short of its goals.

But now there is the Green New Deal.

And its champion is none other then…A.O.C.Alexandria Party, Check Out Alexandria Party : cnTRAVEL

The Green New Deal calls for:

  • a guaranteed job with fair pay, family and medical leave, paid vacations and retirement security
  • universal high-quality healthcare
  • free higher education
  • access to affordable, safe and adequate housing
  • stronger labor, workplace health and safety, anti-discrimination, and wage and hour standards
  • the clean-up of hazardous waste sites
  • access to clean water and air, health and affordable food, and nature

How would it fight climate change?

The goals of the document include a “10-year national mobilization” to:

  • build resiliency against climate change-related disasters
  • upgrade infrastructure
  • meet power demand with “clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources”
  • expand energy efficiency and access to power
  • work with farmers to cut emissions
  • overhaul the transportation sector with electric vehicles, public transportation and high-speed rail
  • remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere by bolstering forests
The  Watermelon  Green Party’s ideology is  Progressive/Marxist/Socialist/Communist disguised as environmentalist!
We have the latest example of Socialism’s production of human misery right before our eyes in the ongoing disaster that is today’s Venezuela.

If American citizen voters should give these people the political power,  ( this is the reason that they want open borders, mass immigration, and the abolishment of the Electoral College in order to ballot harvest.)  They will utilize all the levers of government law enforcement (except ‘ICE’ which of course will be abolished) to ram this abomination down peoples throats. 

And like Mao’s Red Guards and Pol pot’s Khmer Rouge we have millions of brain washed millenial college and high school students who might not need that much encouragement to emulate what has happened in the past. 

China's Cultural Revolution

Rounding up climate deniers???

Americans freedoms hang in the balance!

Will America still be the land of the free? Or will it become an Animal Farm?
Time will tell.

 

 

 

It looks like the Sun might be taking a break

Climate Change / January 2, 2019

“Ra” is planning to kick back for awhile. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phaBUQ3NU1w

Of course here in the “Democrat Peoples Republic of Vermont” where a whole lot of people have drunk the climate change Kool-aid we’re not going to let little things like observational and historical data interfere with the crusade to save the planet and the utopia of “next Tuesday”.

Now if we could only get politics out of science Ms. Hanrahan

My three main takeaways from the AGU Fall Meeting were as follows: 1) Climate change is progressing faster than previously anticipated, 2) we are barreling toward a catastrophic future for all life on this planet, which can still be mitigated, but only if we act soon, and 3) there is growing frustration among scientists that our science is not being properly used for policy and decision making, largely because our message is getting lost in a sea of misinformation.

I’ve attended several AGU meetings over the years, and there has always been a sense of frustration about vocal skeptics who have been at least partially successful in their attempts to confuse the public about climate change. At last week’s meeting, however, this frustration was at the forefront…

Yes, yes… we are all doomed!!  The only thing that can save us is to bow down and let our Marxist  “progressive” elites  to save us from environmental catastrophe. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgakkNTHwew

“Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out”

Inside the Progressive Mind
By N. A. Halkides
The Progressive believes in precisely two things:  his own magnificence and the constructive power of brute force.  In combination, they lead him naturally from the role of pestiferous busybody to brutal dictator.  Where the productive man dreams of the things he might create if only left alone by his fellows, the Progressive dreams of the world he could create if only the lives and property of his fellows were at his disposal.  The roots of his pathology lie in that oldest and most destructive of all human vices, the desire for the power to rule over other men….

Solar Panels and the Unintended Consequences

Climate Change / December 17, 2018
They make the job of a Firefighter that much more dangerous.

Solar Panel Array, Roof, Home, House

 

 

Now everyone, did you know that Solar Panels have a limited lifespan.

Solar photovoltaic panels, whose operating life is 20 to 30 years, lose productivity over time. The International Renewable Energy Agency estimated that there were about 250,000 metric tons of solar panel waste in the world at the end of 2016 and that this figure would definitely increase. Solar panels contain lead, cadmium, and other toxic chemicals that cannot be removed without breaking apart the entire panel. 3

In November 2016, Japan’s Environment Ministry issued a warning that the amount of solar panel waste Japan produces each year is likely to increase from 10,000 to 800,000 tons by 2040, and the country has no plan for safely disposing of it. 4 A recent report found that it would take 19 years for Toshiba Environmental Solutions to finish recycling all of the solar waste Japan produced by 2020. By 2034, the annual waste production will be 70 to 80 time larger than that of 2020. 5

China has more solar power plants than any other country, operating roughly twice as many solar panels as the United States and also has no plan for the disposal of the old panels. In China, there could be 20 million metric tons of solar panel waste, or 2,000 times the weight of the Eiffel Tower by 2050. 4

California, another world leader in deploying solar panels, likewise has no plan for disposal, despite its boast of environmental consciousness. Only Europe requires solar panel manufacturers to collect and dispose of solar waste at the end of their useful lives.

Another issue: according to federal data, building solar panels significantly increases emissions of nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), which is 17,200 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas over a 100 year time period. NF3 emissions increased by 1,057 percent over the last 25 years. In comparison, US carbon dioxide emissions only increased by about 5 percent during that same time period. 4

Speaking of California, the state has just decrees that in all new housing construction Starting in 2020 will require solar panels . 

Vermont which has it’s own goal of  90% renewable energy by 2050 will be faced with perhaps a very perplexing problem of disposal when the service life of hundreds of thousands of solar panels comes to an end at the very same time.

Since today’s millennials  will be in their fifties and sixties (assuming they’ve reach adulthood by then) it would be interesting to see what solutions they come up with. 

For myself I hope to be long gone before the the coming collapse of Western civilization.

As they say “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”.   

Climate change through the years

Climate Change / November 27, 2018
The latest government report 

speculative scenarios , things that may or may not happen.

But the unhinged left didn’t read that part.

And of course it’s all Trumps fault

Unless we do away with capitalism (free markets) and institute Socialism with top down globalist rule (and while were at it open borders, gun confiscation, and re-writing that old stuffy Constitution)

Were all going to f*cking die!!!

It’s been going on a long time.

But only in the last forty years has global warming  climate change but wedded to the advancement of Marxist ideology.

For at least  120 years, climate “scientists” have been claiming that the climate was going to kill us…but they have kept switching whether it was a coming ice age, or global warming.

(A timeline of claims follows, updated to 2014)

  • 1895 – Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again – New York Times, February 1895
  • 1902 – “Disappearing Glaciers…deteriorating slowly, with a persistency that means their final annihilation…scientific fact…surely disappearing.” – Los Angeles Times
  • 1912 – Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age – New York Times, October 1912
  • 1922-The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer, and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot… Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.” — from an Associated Press report published in The Washington Post on Nov. 2, 1922.
  • 1923 – “Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada” – Professor Gregory of Yale University, American representative to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, – Chicago Tribune
  • 1923 – “The discoveries of changes in the sun’s heat and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age” – Washington Post
  • 1924 – MacMillan Reports Signs of New Ice Age – New York Times, Sept 18, 1924
  •  Rise– New York Times, March 27th, 1933
  • 1933 – “…wide-spread and persistent tendency toward warmer weather…Is our climate changing?” – Federal Weather Bureau “Monthly Weather Review.”
  • 1938 – Global warming, caused by man heating the planet with carbon dioxide, “is likely to prove beneficial to mankind in several ways, besides the provision of heat and power.”– Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • 1938 – “Experts puzzle over 20 year mercury rise…Chicago is in the front rank of thousands of cities thuout the world which have been affected by a mysterious trend toward warmer climate in the last two decades” – Chicago Tribune
  • 1954 – Climate – the Heat May Be Off – Fortune Magazine
  • 1959 – “Arctic Findings in Particular Support Theory of Rising Global Temperatures” – New York Times
  • 1969 – “…the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two” – New York Times, February 20th, 1969
  • 1969 – “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000″ — Paul Ehrlich (while he now predicts doom from global warming, this quote only gets honorable mention, as he was talking about his crazy fear of overpopulation)
  • 1970 – “…get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters – the worst may be yet to come…there’s no relief in sight” – Washington Post
  • 1974 – Global cooling for the past forty years – Time Magazine
  • 1974 – “Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age” – Washington Post
  • 1974 – “As for the present cooling trend a number of leading climatologists have concluded that it is very bad news indeed” – Fortune magazine, who won a Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics for its analysis of the danger
  • 1974 – “…the facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure…mass deaths by starvation, and probably anarchy and violence” – New York Times
  • 1975 – Scientists Ponder Why World’s Climate is Changing; A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable – New York Times, May 21st, 1975
  • 1975 – “The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind” Nigel Calder, editor, New Scientist magazine, in an article in International Wildlife Magazine
  • 1976 – “Even U.S. farms may be hit by cooling trend” – U.S. News and World Report
  • 1981 – Global Warming – “of an almost unprecedented magnitude” – New York Times
  • 1988 – I would like to draw three main conclusions. Number one, the earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of instrumental measurements. Number two, the global warming is now large enough that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship to the greenhouse effect. And number three, our computer climate simulations indicate that thegreenhouse effect is already large enough to begin to effect the probability of extreme events such as summer heat waves. – Jim Hansen, June 1988 testimony before Congress, see His later quote and His superior’s objection for context
  • 1990 – “We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing – in terms of economic policy and environmental policy” – Senator Timothy Wirth
  • 1998 – No matter if the science [of global warming] is all phony . . . climate change [provides] the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.” —Christine Stewart, Canadian Minister of the Environment, Calgary Herald, 1998
  • 2006 – “What we have fundamentally forgotten is simple primary school science. Climate always changes. It is always…warming or cooling, it’s never stable. And if it were stable, it would actually be interesting scientifically because it would be the first time for four and a half billion years.” —Philip Stott, emeritus professor of bio-geography at the University of London
  • 2008 – “Hansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASA’s official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind’s effect on it). Hansen thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress” – Dr. John S. Theon, retired Chief of the Climate Processes Research Program at NASA, see above for Hansen quotes

 

  • 2011 – Where Did Global Warming Go? “In Washington, ‘climate change’ has become a lightning rod, it’s a four-letter word,” said Andrew J. Hoffman, director of the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Sustainable Development.   – New York Times, Oct 15, 2011.
  • 2013 – Global-warming ‘proof’ is evaporating.  The 2013 hurricane season just ended as one of the five quietest years since 1960. But don’t expect anyone who pointed to last year’s hurricanes as “proof” of the need to act against global warming to apologize; the warmists don’t work that way. New York Post, Dec 5, 2013

Indoctrination is truly a dangerous thing to society and our freedom. The fact is, fossil fuels have greatly improved the length and quality of life for everyone the last 150 years. When scientists, bureaucrats and politicians predict the number of deaths from fossil fuels years out, why don’t they point out the number of lives saved each year because we have fossil fuels?

Note the year 1998;  What Ms. Christine Stewart really means is Socialism and top down rule by your “Betters”.  That’s what it’s all about now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is Vermont, like Europe a lost cause?

Climate Change / April 19, 2018

Ya, I kinda think so.

Certainly no “question everything” here.

“Students feel very strongly that this is going to disproportionately affect them and they are going to be bearing a lot of the costs,” he said. “Students care about climate change and they are more aware of political inaction so they wanted to do something about it.” 

 

Hundreds of students gathered at Montpelier High School before marching to the State House lawn for the rally.

Students from all over the state gathered at Montpelier High School Thursday morning, and marched to the State House for the rally.

Keynote speakers included students from several different schools around the state. 

Sarah Claus, 18, of Champlain Valley High School in Hinesburg, opened with slam poetry titled ‘Metamorphosis of a Nation,” that noted, “America land of the free, where everyone has a voice,” and lamented the damage caused to a virgin wilderness, adding “This is the voice of the children. We demand justice.” 

Fellow CVU student Julia Grant implored, “If people would only listen to the sounds surrounding us, more would know that currently we are facing one of the largest environmental crises this planet has ever seen. We cannot keep pretending this isn’t a problem.” 

What these young “skulls full of mush” refuse to realize is that the “science” behind “global warming”,  or “climate change” is highly suspect. That they have become the political pawns of a political ideology that brooks no dissent and who would put skeptics in jail.

America will no longer be the “land of the free” and only the voice of the “politically  correct” will be allowed to be heard.

Ten years from now kids they may start putting “YOU” in jail.

 

Anyone ready to follow this guy’s example.

On April 14, a man set himself on fire in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.  His suicide was fired with fossil fuel, as was his stated intent in protest of climate change.  According to his suicide note, the man lamented, “My early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves.”

What should society take from this man’s messy and tragic death?

U.N. officials who admit that so-called climate change is about ending capitalism, not protecting the environment, will take nothing.

UN IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer: “One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy, it is not.  [It is actually about how] we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.”

That’s right you little twerps. It’s never been about “SAVING THE PLANET”

 

But kids, did your political commissars,  indoctrinators , teachers ever tell you that this ice cap thing has been since before you were born.

 

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OPEN WATER ANT THE NORTH POLE in 1958

What would NSIDC and our media make of a photo like this if released by the NAVY today? Would we see headlines like “NORTH POLE NOW OPEN WATER”? Or maybe “Global warming melts North Pole”? Perhaps we would. sensationalism is all the rage these days. If it melts it makes headlines.

Skate (SSN-578), surfaced at the North Pole, 17 March 1959.

Skate (SSN-578), surfaced at the North Pole, 17 March 1959. Image from NAVSOURCE

Someday you young people may realize that 90% of what you’ve been taught is wrong.  By then it may just be too late. Not to “save the planet”, oh no, the earth will be fine,  but to save your FREEDOM!!!!

 

April is a crazy month

Climate Change / April 9, 2018

Full of highs and lows.

April 8th 2018

Another morning waking up to temperatures below freezing.  And I’m getting damn sick of it.

But April is that transition from winter to (mud season) spring.

1923 was a really cold April.  As was  1982.

 

Barre Montpelier, VT April Record Low 2 °F April 05, 1954 Average April Low: 32 °F
Burlington, VT April Record Low 2 °F April 07, 1972 Average April Low: 35 °F
Cavendish, VT April Record Low -2 °F April 01, 1923 Average April Low: 30 °F
Edward F Knapp State Park, VT April Record Low 7 °F April 05, 1995 Average April Low: 33 °F
Enosburg Falls, VT April Record Low -7 °F April 02, 1911 Average April Low: 33 °F
Essex Junction, VT April Record Low 2 °F April 06, 1995 Average April Low: 33 °F
Mt Mansfield, VT April Record Low -13 °F April 07, 1982 Average April Low: 25 °F
Newport, VT April Record Low -2 °F April 01, 1964 Average April Low: 31 °F
Rochester, VT April Record Low 1 °F April 07, 1982 Average April Low: 30 °F
Rutland, VT April Record Low -19 °F April 19, 1923 Average April Low: 34 °F
South Hero, VT April Record Low 8 °F April 07, 1972 Average April Low: 35 °F
St Albans, VT April Record Low 6 °F April 06, 1982 Average April Low: 35 °F

However 1976  and 1990 were really hot !

I remember well,  of course 1976 was back during a time of  global cooling. By the 1990’s it was flipped 180 degrees (no pun intended) to global warming.The climate change people would really like to cosign the former down the memory hole.

I could get into the politics of climate change, how it’s being used as a cudgel by progressives in an effort to control our lives but not now.

We’ll just leave with the notion that April is a month that can run hot or cold, warm or cool, wet or dry, and everything in between.

But warm is better.

Barre Montpelier, VT April Record High 90 °F April 18, 1976 Average April High: 53 °F
Burlington, VT April Record High 91 °F April 18, 1976 Average April High: 55 °F
Cavendish, VT April Record High 93 °F April 20, 1941 Average April High: 55 °F
Edward F Knapp State Park, VT April Record High 90 °F April 18, 1976 Average April High: 55 °F
Enosburg Falls, VT April Record High 89 °F April 27, 2009 Average April High: 57 °F
Essex Junction, VT April Record High 91 °F April 18, 2002 Average April High: 55 °F
Mt Mansfield, VT April Record High 74 °F April 28, 1990 Average April High: 40 °F
Newport, VT April Record High 87 °F April 19, 1976 Average April High: 54 °F
Rochester, VT April Record High 91 °F April 29, 1990 Average April High: 55 °F
Rutland, VT April Record High 92 °F April 28, 1990 Average April High: 57 °F
South Hero, VT April Record High 88 °F April 27, 1990 Average April High: 54 °F
St Albans, VT April Record High 88 °F April 27, 1990 Average April High: 53 °F