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Faster horses

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Ok, I got it as an email, but it's darn good 'un: :D

Ian Rutherford Plimer is an Australian geologist, professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne, professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide, and the director of multiple mineral exploration and mining companies. He has published 130 scientific papers, six books and edited the Encyclopedia of Geology.


These are his extensive credentials.
Born-12 February 1946 (age 67)



Residence-Australia



Nationality-Australian



Fields-Earth Science, Geology, Mining Engineering



Institutions-University of New England,University of Newcastle,University of Melbourne,University of Adelaide



Alma mater-University of New South Wales,Macquarie University



Thesis-The pipe deposits of tungsten-molybdenum-bismuth in eastern Australia (1976)



Notable awards-Eureka Prize (1995, 2002),Centenary Medal(2003), Clarke Medal (2004)



Where Does the Carbon Dioxide Really Come From?


Professor Ian Plimer's book in a brief summary.

PLIMER: "Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland . Since its first spewing of volcanic ash has, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet - all of you.





Of course, you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress - it’s that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and grow and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans and all animal life.





I know....it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kids "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of abroad,nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your 50 cent light bulbs with $10.00 light bulbs.....well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days.





The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in just four days - yes, FOUR DAYS - by that volcano in Iceland has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud at any one time - EVERY DAY.





I don't really want to rain on your parade too much, but I should mention that when the volcano Mt Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in all its years on earth.





Yes, folks, Mt Pinatubo was active for over One year - think about it.





Of course, I shouldn't spoil this 'touchy-feely tree-hugging' moment and mention the effect of solar and cosmic activity and the well-recognized 800-year global heating and cooling cycle, which
keeps happening despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate change.





And I do wish I had a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud, but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire season across the western USA and Australia this year alone will negate your efforts to reduce carbon in our world for the next two to three years. And it happens every year.





Just remember that your government just tried to impose a whopping carbon tax on you, on the basis of the bogus 'human-caused' climate-change scenario.





Hey, isn’t it interesting how they don’t mention 'Global Warming' anymore, but just 'Climate Change' - you know why?





It’s because the planet has COOLED by 0.7 degrees in the past century and these global warming bullshitartists got caught with their pants down.





And, just keep in mind that you might yet have an Emissions Trading Scheme - that whopping new tax - imposed on you that will achieve absolutely nothing except make you poorer.





It won’t stop any volcanoes from erupting, that’s for sure.



But, hey, .....go give the world a hug and have a nice day.
 

loomixguy

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I can't say one way or another about CO2 or greenhouse gasses, but I saw the aftermath of Pinatubo firsthand a couple of months after it blew.

Snow melts, floodwaters recede, but volcanic ash doesn't go away. When you see the very tops of the roofs of houses that are 99.9% buried in the stuff, and there's no way you'll ever get the house back, it can be pretty mind blowing.
 

hypocritexposer

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October 6, 2013
Here Comes the Sun: Global Warming and the Perversion of Science
By Jim Heilman

As the hypothesis of man-caused global warming is trundled off to the Morgue for Scientific Hoaxes, let's anticipate the autopsy's preliminary findings: the subject expired after choking on its own premises.

In denial, warmists continue to hawk recently discredited tenets: mankind's (read: America's) profligate use of fossil fuels pumps enormous quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere; naturally, Earth's temperature rises, exacerbating the so-called "greenhouse effect"; in time, our planet becomes a most inhospitable place. "Settled science." Until it wasn't.

These postulates were meant to frighten the naive and misinformed into supporting a radical correction that would (surprise!) hit the U.S. hardest. Now that the warmists' case has come undone, we can see it for what it is: a perversion of science and the scientific method. The greenhouse effect is not a law of nature, but a warmist paradigm consisting of fudged data, tortured logic, and half-truths. Short of World War III, there is nothing humans can do to produce climate change.

Warmists didn't get everything wrong: CO2 levels are indeed greater than they were just a few decades ago, thanks to China's industrialization. Yet global temperatures have not increased in 17 years; actually, they are trending down, undercutting the warmists' key argument. The seeming contradiction can be explained by, well, looking up.

Orbiting the sun 150 million kilometers (93 million miles) out, Earth receives less than five ten-billionths of the star's radiation. Even so, variations in the star's output may cause -- have caused -- major climatological events, a fact warmists choose to ignore.

Waves of stellar activity called "sunspots" have been observed and recorded since the days of Galileo in the early 1600s. Sunspot "cycles" occur every 11 years or so, and they are not all alike. Neutral observers confirm correlations between historical records of solar activity and concurrent weather anomalies.

Sunspot activity has increased over the last 200 years, with each solar cycle gaining in magnitude. "Epic" describes the sun's outbursts in recent decades, with Cycle 19 (c. 1960) notable as the most intense in recorded history.

The sun is now at the peak of solar cycle 24, which was slow to begin and is relatively weak compared to its predecessors. This cycle is similar to Number 5, which ran from the late 1790s into the 1800s, a time known as the Dalton Minimum. That period featured unusually cold temperatures worldwide.

Understandably, warmists don't want to hear speculation about dropping temperatures. They'd rather focus on computer-generated feedback loops "proving" that increased levels of atmospheric CO2 are accelerating global warming. In fact, CO2 in the atmosphere in any concentration is not the cause of climate change.

What drives Earth's thermal budget and weather in the short and long terms is stored solar heat, heat most efficiently conveyed by water. (In its liquid state, water is an energy storehouse.) For most of Earth's 4.5-billion-year history, climate change has been the norm. The engine of change? H2O. The source of all the energy found in water? Our sun.

Climatology is not an exact science. Competing theories and enigmas abound. Oceans are warmer now than in centuries past, polar atmospheres colder (likely because of a decline in solar output). New weather patterns may emerge at any time. But this much is gospel: humans cannot be at fault for climate change if climate change is a function of solar activity. No matter: whenever extreme weather-related events occur -- hurricanes, tornadoes, episodes of El Niño and La Niña -- die-hard warmists will attempt to resurrect their creed and blame humanity.

To that I say, never again. Weather phenomena and climate change are unrelated to atmospheric CO2. They are manifestations of natural processes predating mankind by billions of years. This is the "inconvenient truth" Al Gore and his disciples would rather you not know.

The worst of the warmists are scientific opportunists. What matters to them is not being right, but roiling the waters, questioning orthodoxy, getting grants, and gaining influence. As a wag among them, in an honest moment, might put it in verse:

We'll cool the planet, save the whales,
Tell our kids tall climate tales.
And when we're through and temps are pleasing,
We'll warm to threats of global freezing.


Jim Heilman is a retired Earth science teacher and planetarium director.
 
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