Interesting that the time lapse showed the “long imagined … Northern Sea Route over Russia”, another preferred community-based-reality view dutifully regurgitated by the IHT, as a rather common occurance.

I saw this domain for sale, according to the appraisals, its worth over $5000.00 usd. It has just the perfect amount of keywords….

After just six days, columnist Jane Hodges finds a buyer for her house….

Darksean on August 13, 2007 at 11:28 AM

That’s just too good to check. I just love how slowly but surely the truth is percolating to the surface. Facts win (in a free society) but they take longer.

The following items appear in the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation Newsletter, August 15, 2007:

For openers, a cardinal explains the connection between religious faith (or unbelief) and public discourse:
Some of the hysteric and e…

Source: Washington Post

Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt !

Oh… nevermind, this article is from November 2, 1922.

OK, maybe that was still a little cryptic. Let me put it this way: Man-made global warming is a hoax that could cost you 10 percent of your income over the next 50 years, if you live that long. Is it a price you’re ready to pay?…

I can’t remember the author, but it does seem ironic.

“The interesting thing here is IF this turns out to be completely true, and so far nobody has proven it’s not(hansen himself has admitted the error), the following happens. If you track the observed warming trend with the updated more accurate temperature data, and cross reference it with the increase in solar irradiance due to sunspot activity you get a damn near perfect corollation.

Which suggests if true that the observable warming in the last 20+ years tracks almost 1 to 1 with the observable increase in solar irradiance, and therefore appears to NOT be manmade.

I just hope the solar irradiance guys aren’t using the same computers NASA was.

Note, the .8C is for US data only not worldwide just to be clear.”

Thank you, glad you liked it… and absolutely you can keep it, nothing is copyrighted here.

Dr. Strangelove is working on that update.

Maxx on August 12, 2007 at 2:55 PM

You left out the part where the sun’s energy is absorbed in the process of making our precious bodily fluids.

According to the EIA (Energy Information Administration) created by Congress in 1977, the way the earth cools is via infrared radiation into space.

The EIA is an adviser to the Energy Department and their official statement on how the earth cools is shown below. Simply put, the EIA is saying that nearly 100% of the heat sent to earth by the sun, is eventually transferred back into space via infrared radiation. Please see the EIA’s statement below:

What Are Greenhouse Gases?
Many chemical compounds found in the Earth’s atmosphere act as “greenhouse gases.” These gases allow sunlight to enter the atmosphere freely. When sunlight strikes the Earth’s surface, some of it is reflected back towards space as infrared radiation (heat). Greenhouse gases absorb this infrared radiation and trap the heat in the atmosphere. Over time, the amount of energy sent from the sun to the Earth’s surface should be about the same as the amount of energy radiated back into space, leaving the temperature of the Earth’s surface roughly constant.

Energy Information Administration (EIA)
Official Energy Statistics website for the U.S. Government

The EIA’s explanation for how the earth cools is laughable, the statement is far beyond ridiculous and is clearly propaganda tailored to serve the exclusive interests of “Global Warming” advocates. Being that the EIA is a government agency, this constitutes a blatant fraud on the American people. Junkscience you say ? No sir ! Their statement cannot be elevated to that category, because junkscience always has some thread of plausibility, but their statement has none. Persons with only a passing interest in science could not possibly get it this wrong. Yet, the EIA might have a way out of this mess. They could claim it was a propagandized child still in elementary school who was chosen to write this particular statement.

So how ridiculous is it? Well.. if the earth’s only means of cooling was via infrared radiation into space, as the EIA states, then the earth would have incinerated long ago. The sun sends it’s full spectrum, high energy, white light to earth at a far greater rate than the earth’s low level infrared radiation signature could ever dissipate it.

Imagine trying to save a ship from sinking that was taking on water at the rate of a thousand gallons per minute by using a pump that was only capable of pumping one gallons per minute. That ship is going to sink, because the water is coming in at a much faster rate than the pump can move it overboard.

Just as the ship would sink, the earth would overheat, because the earth’s infrared radiation has nowhere near the heat transfer capacity that would be required to equal the rate of heat being sent to earth by the sun.

The sun sends us it’s heat and light via photons which are the full spectrum of white light and very high energy compared to earth’s infrared signature, thus infrared is not able to move heat away from the earth at anywhere near the rate the sun sends it to us.

Of course some negligible amount of heat is lost back into space due to infrared radiation. To get an idea of how much consider the three modes of heat transfer, thermal radiation is by far the LEAST efficient. The three modes of heat transfer are:

1) Conduction : Heat transfer through a solid.
2) Convection : Heat transfer through a liquid or gas.
3) Thermal Radiation : Heat transfer via electromagnetic (infrared) waves (photons).

While Conduction and Convection are efficient means of heat transfer, neither mode can transfer any heat into space because space is a vacuum. A vacuum is the perfect insulator because there is no solid, liquid or gas in a vacuum to allow heat transfer via conduction or convection. Therefore, thermal radiation is the only means by which the earth can lose heat into space.

So why can’t the earth radiate heat away from itself as quickly as the sun send it to us ? The simple answer is because the earth is not as hot as the sun. In other words, in order for the earth to be as efficient as the sun at transferring heat via thermal radiation, the earth would have to be at the same temperature as the sun. The cooler the object, the less efficient it is for the purpose of thermal radiation.

And we would not want the earth’s heat to be lost into space at nearly the same rate it is received, the result would be a frozen world, a dead planet. It would be like trying to heat your home in the dead of winter with all the doors and windows open, your home would freeze and so would you.

The fact is, the amount of heat dissipated from the earth via infrared radiation is so small as to be insignificant, probably far less than one percent. If this was not true, and most heat energy was radiated away from a body and back into space, as the EIA states above, then we should be able to feel the sun’s heat being radiated from the moon, but of course we cannot. Furthermore, astronauts in space should feel nearly the same amount of heat through their shuttle windows from the earth as they do the sun. Obviously, that is not true.

So the question becomes, if the earth does not cool via infrared radiation, then how does it cool ? I’m glad you ask that question.

Clearly, food contains energy. Engines can run on pure Ethanol, which is made from corn. We eat food and thereby extract the energy that our bodies need for life. Cows eat grass that supplies their energy needs. All plant life contains energy.

While plants draw nutrients from the soil, the conversion of those nutrients is not possible without the energy from the sun which drives the process of photosynthesis. Both sunlight and heat are required for photosynthesis to occur. The heat is absorbed or “used-up” to run the process.

This is one reason why vegetation is sparse to nonexistent in arctic areas, there is plenty of sunlight, but not enough heat for photosynthesis to occur for most types of plants. And of course, plant life located in area with four seasons normally go dormant during the winter months, not enough heat to run the growing process is why. Plants having adequate heat and sunlight are able to convert that energy to another form. Trees and plants grow by using the heat and light as an energy source which fuels their growth. The absorption of heat and sunlight by plants causes much of the earth’s cooling. Plant life is responsible for a great deal of cooling, this is why a forest is cooler than the desert.

But plant life is not the primary means by which the earth cools, overwhelmingly the earth cools because of a process called EVAPORATION. Evaporation is a process by which heat energy is converted into kinetic energy…. in the form of an expanded water molecule. Heat is absorbed in the process, thus cooling occurs.

Have you ever lifted a gallon of water? It’s heavy stuff, it weighs about eight pounds per gallon. Have you ever wondered what does all the heavy lifting to bring billions of gallons of water over land each year? Well here’s a shocker… it’s the sun !

The sun heats the oceans and other bodies of water, which causes evaporation, which expands the water molecule turning liquid water into water vapor. Water vapor rises into the air and forms clouds, wind currents carry the clouds over land and when the right atmospheric conditions are met, the clouds condense and rain falls. It’s the sun’s energy that lifts all those giga-tons of water, an enormous amount of heat is required and absorbed in the process.

It takes billions of joules of energy to perform this massive evaporative process each day, and all of that energy is provided by the sun. Even the wind’s energy is a component of the sun. Uneven heating of the air causes expansions of air in some areas, thus high barometric pressures, along with lesser heated air in other areas, which forms lower barometric areas, thus the wind blows. So in reality, windmills are capturing energy that originated from the sun.

Thus energy from the sun, heat and light are converted to other forms of energy, this energy does not leave the earth, it is “used-up” to run the earth’s natural processes.

And what about hydro-electric power, where does all of that energy come from ? It’s simple, the same clouds that carried the water to irrigate you crops and lawns and provide your fresh drinking water also carried the water that flows from “upstream” through the dam’s generators which produce electricity onto power grid, which is supplying electricity to your computer right now. The original source of the power, was the sun.

This energy never leaves the earth, at some point it becomes mass, like dead vegetation that piles up to form top-soil. But the energy that comes in the form of heat is quickly transformed into some other type of energy, and the heat that was absorbed must be replaced by the sun every single day. If not, the process stops and the planet dies. The sun’s heat is not lost to space, it is used by the planet to warm it’s atmosphere, provide our fresh drinking water and produce our food along with many other earth processes.

The earth’s surface is two-thirds covered by water, the water acts as a kind of “thermostat” for the earth’s temperature. Provided the sun’s output does not dramatically increase, the earth cannot overheat. A slight increase in the sun’s output only causes evaporation to occur more quickly, and offsets the effects of more heat energy by running the natural processes at a faster rate.

The sun’s heat is our friend, the “global warmers” are not.

On August 9th, 2007 at 10:15 pm, ajmontana said:

“Reverse Al-gore-rithms”

ScottyDog on August 10, 2007 at 5:59 PM

WOW. That’s a scary story. If you are getting nailed with the thermostat set at 82 degrees, there’s really nothing you can do to keep from going into hock thanks to your local eco-but not human-friendly government. This is where Hugo Chavez steps in to save the say, no doubt.

I’m curious – what’s The Governator’s position on this?

Buy Danish on August 10, 2007 at 8:30 PM

Arnold signed the damned legislation and bragged about it, saying it would help conservation and Global Warming.He has turned into a left winged liberal in his second term.

I called my Electric Utility and complained that the Tier Usage penalizes customers even though they try to conserve. They have decided, on high, what the average house should consume and if you go over their average house your going to be penalized!

I challenge you all, to look at your utility bills and multiply by .31 per kwh which is what I am being forced to pay to help Global Warming. I am so angry I cannot see straight. Anthropogenic Global Warming is a theory not a scientific fact yet public policy is being legislated on the myth that it is a fact.

I am seriously thinking about moving to another state.

We all are going to the City Council Meeting next Tuesday and are going to protest the new electric rates. I am going to bring in the new data from NASA to debunk their arguments about Global Warming.

You all should be outraged that public policy is based on junk science. You are going to be paying too. Like they say, California is usually the leader in liberal policies. If California passes something so goes the nation.

No. It has been tried … several times. They always manage to twist the meaning of the request. If you request it you will be told that the raw temperature data are available online. But that isn’t what you asked for, is it?

For many of these people, warming is a religion. They are not going to hand over their sacred texts to people who might go digging into them and find inconsistencies.

…one of the great travesties of climate science…. Government scientists using taxpayer money to develop the GISS temperature data base at taxpayer expense refuse to publicly release their temperature adjustment algorithms or software.

desertdweller on August 9, 2007 at 10:28 PM
RightWinged on August 10, 2007 at 2:56 AM

Question: Would a Freedom of Information Act request work here? Would the government be required to release these algorithms and software for public review?

The eviro-nazis are using the same strategy with their attacks on the American people and the rest of the world. First they conned people into the believe that DDT was toxic and should be banned, thus condemning millions of poor people in Africa and Southeast Asia to die from malaria. Then they decided that they needed to make money from their next con. Thus they invented the “ozone hole” panic and got Freon outlawed. All Freon containing air conditioners had to be converted to R134 use and I’m sure that the same eviro-nazis owned the companies that produced the R134 or had large stock positions in those companies. They made a fortune from the average consumer who could no longer afford to buy Freon due the scarcity induced price increases and had to buy the R134. Never mind that R134 is NOT as efficient as Freon and therefore more energy was required to maintain the same temperature as before R134. Now that they made a monetary fortune they decided that they still weren’t satisfied and this time decided that what they want is POWER. Since it is GLOBAL warming, the solution has to be a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT with the power to pass laws and demand taxation in an effort to solve the invented problem. They succeeded with the first two power plays, so they are completely convinced that they will be able to pull this one off as well and with the “sheep” that we have in this country who have been brainwashed by public education, they probably will succeed. I got my B. S. in chemisty from a private university, so I wasn’t brainwashed like most other people. I have been asking for years if the ozone molecule is lighter than air or heavier than air. If it is heavier than air then why doesn’t all the ozone in the ozone layer fall to earth? If it is lighter than air then what is the problem with ozone, because it will rise in the atmosphere and replenish the ozone layer naturally. Freon has nothing to do with any of this and was picked on just like DDT was as a trial to see if the eviro-nazis could convince people to follow their devious plan to become rich by forcing a change to R134.

Once they have their ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT in place, the poor guy in Kalifornia may have to set his thermostat at 85 degrees by law or they will cut off his electric service completely as punishment. Your thermostat setting will be mandated by the government and the punishment for violating the law will be severe, because they will have the POWER that they have been seeking since they changed their methodology on how to gain power. They NEED a crisis of some kind that threatens the whole world so they can come riding in on their white horse with the solution; a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT with them in charge because they are the only ones smart enough to solve the crisis. They are the communist/socialist/humanist/enviro-nazis who worship Gaia and not the Creator.