Climategate?

Solar (No So) Powered House

Students from Lawrence Technological University in Troy Michigan built an 800 square foot

"shining example of the green movement -- a completely independent solar-powered house with no gas or electrical hookups"

This technological marvel had only two little problems:

1) it cost over $900,000 dollars
2) it didn't work.

That's right, $900,000 dollars. That is $1,125 per square foot. If I was to build my current home from the same technology at the same price it would cost over 2.8 million dollars. Which is probably a great deal. I would be off the grid, I would never have to pay an electric or gas bill again. Heck I should do this. After all its free energy right? Never mind that it will cost almost 3 million up front. Think about how much I will save in the long run. At the current rate that I pay per month for electrical and gas I will make up that 2.8 million dollars in just 11,250 months. Heck that's just a piddling little 937 years, 6 months. What a deal! Where do I sign up? Just think if I do this right now, without delay, my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandchildren will be able to live here for free.

Oh, wait, I forgot about the second little problem. The system didn't work well enough to produce enough power to keep the heater working during the winter, the pipes froze, flooded that house and now the City of Troy doesn't have the $16,000 dollars they need to repair their new state of the art house. Whoops, I better recalculate my numbers. If I have to add an additional $16,000 per year, plus the cost of living somewhere else while my house is fixed each year, you had better add a whole bunch more greats to that list above.

Now to make matters even worse, the Oakland County Planning and Economic Development Department advertised tours of the house for its Tuesday Oakland County Green Summit.

Yeah, thats the ticket. Lets have a green summit and we will all tour the little house that couldn't. Does anyone think that anyone in the Troy area learned anything from this little exercise in incompetence and stupidity. I wonder, how many scholarships the $900,000 dollars could have provided for deserving students at the Lawrence Technological University to go to a real engineering school where they might learn some real engineering.

Don't get me wrong now. I'm all for sane common sense ideas that will protect our environment. You know things like don't litter, don't polute, turn off the lights when you leave the room, limit the amount of running around town you do, stuff like that. But spending close to a million dollars on an 800 square foot house that doesn't work is insane. Isn't there anyone in the city of Troy, the University, the student body, anywhere around there that said "maybe we could put this money to better use somewhere else?" Even if the goram house did work who in their right mind thinks that building a million dollar closet that is off the grid is a good idea?

Morons!

The soft headed, earth first, save the planet folks over at Vote Earth 2009 are encouraging everyone to turn off all their lights tomorrow night (3/28) from 8:30 to 9:30 PM.

Their website claims that turning off your lights is a vote for earth, or leaving your lights on is a vote for global warming.

Personally I intend to turn on a couple extra lights. Call it a vote for reason, sanity and freedom. But I am not voting for global warming. I'm voting to be a light in the darkness caused by hysteria, panic and blind over reaction. How much effort and money have these clowns sunk into this endeavor? Do they think it will really matter? Do you think they'll see a satellite picture of the Korean peninsula at night and notice that the entire North Korean portion of the peninsula is dark and
think "Hey, everyone there is voting for the earth!"

A message for the Vote for earth crowd - You are wasting both yours and my time. You are attempting to cost our society billions of dollars with wasteful legislation that will accomplish nothing. You will not stop global warming by turning off your lights. You will not cool the planet by shutting down factories, cars, light bulbs, etc. The only thing you can do to cool this planet is to turn off the sun. But don't worry we can do that.

Wait until about 8:30 tomorrow night, then go outside. Look up into the sky and be amazed, because the sun will have gone dark. It will be turned off. Then if you dare to, turn on a light so you can read a thermometer. You will discover that it is already getting cooler outside. Amazing huh? If we turn off the sun then the atmosphere cools. Then, go back in your house, turn on your lights so you don't break a toe tripping over something. Sit down, read a book, watch some TV, play a
game with your kids, then turn off the lights, go to bed and get a good night sleep. Don't worry, the whole world will not be a frozen wasteland when you walk up. I promise that we will turn the sun back on in the morning so that your world will warm back up again. When that happens you should get up, shower, put on a clean tee shirt, braid your hair, then go outside into that great big warm wonderful world and find yourself a useful job.

Oh, if at anytime during the day you happen to see Algore speaking, stick both your fingers in your ears and run like your life and the lives of your children depend on it - because it does.

Satellite Fall Down - Go Boom

A satellite that was supposed to measure green house gases in order to help governments continue to use scare tactics to further repress their citizens develop global climate change policies crashed after take off in California today. A payload fairing that covers the top half of the satellite during launch failed to seperate so the launch was unable to reach a sustainable orbit. The satellite crashed into the ocean near Antartica.

Alan O’Neill, a science director of the Centre for Earth Observation in Reading, U.K. said:

“It’s disappointing because it was giving us novel information to help us move our understanding forward on global warming,”

Wow, that is impressive. The satellite didn't even manage to achieve orbit before it crashed yet it was already giving them "novel information". Any bets on what kind of novel that satellite was reading? Fantasy? Sci-Fi? Horror?

According to NASA's Mission Website :

Of all the carbon emitted by human activities between 1751 and 2003, only about 40 percent has remained in the atmosphere. The remaining 60 percent has been apparently absorbed (at least temporarily) by the ocean and continents. Recent inventories of the ocean can account for about half of this missing carbon. The remainder must have been absorbed somewhere on land, but scientists don't know where most of the land sinks are located or what controls their efficiency over time.

I have a couple questions: We can inventory the entire freaking oceans? All 60% of the earths surface, but we need a satellite to find what on the land is stealing all our CO2?

Secondly, the ocean is only absorbing about half of the CO2, and is only doing so temporarily? OMG what are we all going to do when suddenly the ocean lets loose with one huge burp and spits out 30% of all the carbon emitted by humans since 1751? Damned! Will there be an "excuse me" big enough to handle that magnitude of burp?

An improved understanding of carbon sinks is essential to predicting future carbon dioxide increases and making accurate predictions of carbon dioxide's impact on Earth's climate. If these natural carbon dioxide sinks become less efficient as the climate changes, the rate of buildup of carbon dioxide would increase-in fact, today's carbon dioxide levels would be about 100 parts per million higher were it not for them.

Notice the completely blind faith that the CO2 is impacting Earth's Climate?

Also the assumption that these sinks will become "less efficient" as the climate changes. We can't even find the damned things but we know they are going to be less efficient if we don't hurry up and ban light bulbs and cow farts.

And - we can't find the sinks, we only know that about half of the CO2 is being absorbed by the ocean and about half by the sinks (that we can't find), but we know that there would be 100 parts per million more carbon without them? Please?????

I have long been a proponent of a space program and I wish to God that we had one! So, far be it from me to cheer on the loss of any legitamate space vehicle. But this sounds more like a junk science vehicle than a space vehicle so I'm not too sorry its gone.

FIRE! Again....

It is summer in California which means that it is fire season in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

This is the first one we have seen so far this year. The smoke looks like it is coming from deep in the mountains well off to the NNW of us.





I just can't help but ask "Who is going to have to pay for the carbon offsets to pay for all the global warming that this is going to cause?

Also I don't like the fact that the smoke seems to be drifting our direction. My sinuses really are not looking forward to a valley full of smoke and particulate matter.

Global Climate Change

The Director of the Space and Science Research Center, (SSRC) in Orlando, Florida, John Casey has confirmed a recent WWW announcement by solar Physicists at NASA that changes in the sun will result in a climate change from warming to a long lasting period of global cooling.

NASA's original report was published on May 10, 2006 - Long Range Solar Forecast

The SSRC report was published on January 2, 2008 - Changes in the Sun’s Surface to Bring Next Climate Change

Read both reports, they are not long, and don't contain too much technical jargon. In other words even Al Gore could understand what they are say, provided he was intellectually honest enough to actually consider a point of view other than his own.

For example:

"With this next solar minimum predicted by NASA, what I call a “solar hibernation,” the SSRC forecasts a much colder Earth just as it has transpired before for thousands of years. If NASA is the more accurate on the schedule, then we may see even warmer temperatures before the bottom falls out. If the SSRC and other scientists around the world are correct then we have only a few years to prepare before 20-30 years of lasting and possibly dangerous cold arrive.”

and

The Great Conveyor Belt is a massive circulating current of fire (hot plasma) within the Sun. It has two branches, north and south, each taking about 40 years to perform one complete circuit. Researchers believe the turning of the belt controls the sunspot cycle, and that's why the slowdown is important.

So what are these scientists saying? They are saying that from now till somewhere between 2010 and 2012 we should expect the earth to continue to get warmer, because solar cycle 24 will be peaking during that period. That's right kiddies, global warming is real, it's happening, and contrary to what Pope Al Gore and his church of radical environmentalism tells you, it is not about green house gases, SUVs or cow farts. It is all about the sun baby!

Then, after solar cycle number 24 starts declining sometime around 2013 and for the next 20-40 years we are in for a period of solar hibernation which is going to make things get colder around here. According to some predictions a lot colder.

Now, I live in the desert, so if you tell me the average temperature is going to drop several degrees I'm all for that. But there are large portions of this planet that are not going to find this to be good news - farmers for example. You know, the people that provide all the food you eat!

So what can we do about this? Because you know, we are important. Just ask any of Al Gore's rabid followers and they will tell you that anything that happens on this planet is all the fault of us decadent American citizens. They will tell you that the current warming trend is all our fault, so I expect that they will blame the cooling trend to come on us also. But what can we do, it is the freaking sun we are talking about here. It is big - 864,938 miles in diameter, that's 109 times larger than the earth. Which makes it's volume 1,299,400 times that of the earth. That means if you were to hollow out the sun and fill it up with copies of the planet earth you would need 1.3 million earths, or one Al Gore ego. The sun is also far away - 93 million miles away. And finally it is hot - 11,000°F.

So what is our piddling little planet with it's insignificant infestation of human beings going to do to stop the solar cycles that are heating or cooling our planet?

I know that we aren't supposed to think of ourselves as insignificant but it is true, cosmically speaking we are a dust mote to be swept away like we never existed. There is absolutely nothing we human beings can do to stop, change or alter the solar heating or cooling cycles. What we can do is our best to survive whatever our sun throws at us. But we won't be able to do that until the spittle flinging lunatics like Al Gore shut up and stop blaming us for the problem. Survival is going to be a lot harder if we first don't recognize what is causing the problem and secondly don't make our lives significantly more difficult or uncomfortable by allowing our government to pass meaningless laws trying to combat a problem that they cannot possibly prevent.

Best Christmas Present Ever?

Wow I can't tell you how much better I feel. Once again I can drive my big SUV, fly my private jet, burn wood in my fireplace, leave my incandescent lights on all night and even exhale a little carbon dioxide without Al Gore and his church of rampant environmentalism following me around and blaming me for destroying the universe.



The best part is you can get your own freedom at http://www.freecarbonoffsets.com

Global Climate Change?

We have been hearing a lot lately about global climate change. Actually we were hearing a lot about global warming. But since comedians kept making jokes about Al Gore giving global warming warning speaches while it was snowing outside the environmentalists have started calling it global climate change instead. I have more to say about this topic, but still have several things left to get finished up for my middle school volleyball team before next thursday, so I'll write more later. In the meantime here is an article you should read.


The Faithful Heretic is about 86 year old Reid A. Bryson the father of the science of modern climatology.

Here is a brief excerpt:

Almost 40 years ago, Bryson stood before the American Association for the Advancement of Science and presented a paper saying human activity could alter climate.

“I was laughed off the platform for saying that,” he told Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News.

In the 1960s, Bryson’s idea was widely considered a radical proposition. But nowadays things have turned almost in the opposite direction: Hardly a day passes without some authority figure claiming that whatever the climate happens to be doing, human activity must be part of the explanation. And once again, Bryson is challenging the conventional wisdom.

“Climate’s always been changing and it’s been changing rapidly at various times, and so something was making it change in the past,” he told us in an interview this past winter. “Before there were enough people to make any difference at all, two million years ago, nobody was changing the climate, yet the climate was changing, okay?”

“All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it’s absurd,” Bryson continues. “Of course it’s going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we’re putting more carbon dioxide into the air.”

Little Ice Age? That’s what chased the Vikings out of Greenland after they’d farmed there for a few hundred years during the Mediaeval Warm Period, an earlier run of a few centuries when the planet was very likely warmer than it is now, without any help from industrial activity in making it that way.