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Crowds marched again for Earth Day. Many were really marching in anger because their candidate lost. Some probably feared what would happen to their benefits when the bloated government bureaucracy is forced to shrink. Others showed the typical march disdain for democracy, which gives them the right to march and protest. Others were deluded into thinking a critical mission they supported to save the planet was threatened.
Rapid industrialization requires abundant, cheap energy!
Why cooling is more likely and is a greater risk
"[C]old weather kills many more people than hot weather. This conclusion is clearly supported by many studies of populations in a wide range of climates."
Global warming alarmists continue to over-emphasize the danger of heat and ignore cold in their papers and in stories for the media. The danger associated with this misdirection is that cold weather kills many more people that hot weather. This conclusion is clearly supported by many studies of populations in a wide range of climates. Examples are provided below from a study of thirteen countries, as well as national studies from the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada and Australia. Furthermore, this conclusion is not new, but has been known for many decades.
March saw the cold ease in the north, central and southeast U.S. as global anomalies fell in the NOAA analysis data (base period of 1981-2010) that goes into computer models. Despite a global anomaly of just 0.233 degrees Celsius, NOAA and NASA announced it was the warmest March in the record back to 1895. Satellite remote sensing covers the entire globe far better than the land station and ocean data sources and can be trusted to give a more accurate data assessment. On land in the current global data sets, some 1,200 stations are used. Many are warm biased, especially at night by urban heat island contamination. Also, as the Government Accountability Office found, over 42% of U.S. stations did not meet NOAA's own established minimum requirements for siting and had warm biases.
In the Northeast, February 2015 was a month like no other in our lifetime; January through March Harshest since 1717?
Last week the governors of the six New England states met in an emergency session at Bretton Woods, NH, to discuss what to do about the pending crisis. What crisis? The increasingly likely failure of the electric grid leaving many or all of us in the dark and cold next winter, skyrocketing electricity and fuel costs and supply shortages for natural gas and heating oil. See this American Spectator piece to see why we should be worried…very worried.
Last month was the hottest June since record keeping began in 1880, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Monday. It marked the third month in a row the global temperature reached a record high. According to the NOAA data, April and May were also global record-breakers. "The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for June 2014 was record high for the month at 61.20°F (16.22°C), or 1.30°F (0.72°C) above the 20th century average of 59.9°F (15.5°C)," the NOAA said in its monthly climate report. "This surpasses the previous record, set in 2010, by (0.05°F) 0.03°C."
Last winter was a brutally cold one for the nation's midsection. For Chicago, the period from December through March was the coldest in the entire record back to 1872. It was the third snowiest winter behind only the 1978/79 and 1977/78 winters. In Detroit, it ended up the snowiest ever on record back to 1880. It now has been cooling in the U.S. (including all 9 climate zones) for 20 winters (2.26F/decade)!
One of the claims is 97% of scientists agree man is responsible for warming that is accelerating, and due to man's production of greenhouse gases, most notably carbon pollution and that with the warming, this is increasing asthma and health problems related to ozone. First of all carbon pollution is 'soot' which we don't have a problem with -- the EPA's own data shows in fact it is well below EPA standards, declining 50% since 1999. CO2, which is conflated with soot, is a harmless (actually beneficial) gas, and with every breathe every human emits 100 times as much CO2 as is in ambient air. CO2 is critical for plant life and we are at the low end of the scale of CO2 for the earth's history, just above the survival level needed for plants which require it for photosynthesis -- around 280 ppm.
