Just another example of how the eco-loons have no shame in exploiting any tragedy to advance their global warming dogma:
A thaw of Iceland’s ice caps in coming decades caused by climate change may trigger more volcanic eruptions by removing a vast weight and freeing magma from deep below ground, scientists said on Friday.
They said there was no sign that the current eruption from below the Eyjafjallajokull glacier that has paralysed flights over northern Europe was linked to global warming. The glacier is too small and light to affect local geology.
“Our work suggests that eventually there will be either somewhat larger eruptions or more frequent eruptions in Iceland in coming decades,” said Freysteinn Sigmundsson, a vulcanologist at the University of Iceland.
“Global warming melts ice and this can influence magmatic systems,” he told Reuters. The end of the Ice Age 10,000 years ago coincided with a surge in volcanic activity in Iceland, apparently because huge ice caps thinned and the land rose.
“We believe the reduction of ice has not been important in triggering this latest eruption,” he said of Eyjafjallajokull. “The eruption is happening under a relatively small ice cap.” [Reuters]
So even though the erupting volcano has nothing to do with global warming this guy is still more than happy to exploit it to blame future volcanic eruptions on global warming and the sympathetic media gives these people a platform to push this nonsense. When these people aren’t taking advantage of the Haiti earthquake tragedy to push their global warming nonsense about earthquakes being caused by global warming; or taking advantage of multiple tragic hurricanes that had nothing to do with global warming, they are now blaming erupting volcanoes on global warming as well.
And to think these tragedy exploiters have the nerve to want to try me in an international court for “crimes against peace“.
As I have always said many of these global warming loons are mad, but not even I thought they would get this crazy:
A seven-month-old baby girl survived three days alone with a bullet in her chest beside the bodies of her parents and toddler brother.
Argentines Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, shot their children before killing themselves after making an apparent suicide pact over fears about global warming.
Their son Francisco, two, died instantly after being hit in the back.
But their unnamed daughter cheated death after the bullet from her dad’s handgun missed her vital organs.
Paramedics rushed her to hospital covered in blood when police alerted by worried neighbours discovered the massacre three days later.
The youngster is recovering in hospital in the town of Goya in the northern Argentine province of Corrientes, where doctors say she is out of danger.
Her parents said they feared the effects of global warming in a suicide note discovered by police. [Daily Mail]
This case is tragic and hopefully this little girl will have a full recovery.
Wow the scientific fraud that continues to be uncovered in regards to the global warming issue is really incredible, here is the latest:
The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.
Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.
In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Dr Lal, the co-ordinating lead author of the report’s chapter on Asia, said: ‘It related to several countries in this region and their water sources. We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.
‘It had importance for the region, so we thought we should put it in.’ [DailyMail]
You can read more about this scandal at Watts Up With That?
Maybe the alarmists can use this to explain the Miedeval Warm Period, civilizations back then just owned a lot of dogs!
Man’s best friend could be one of the environment’s worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle.
But the revelation in the book “Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living” by New Zealanders Robert and Brenda Vale has angered pet owners who feel they are being singled out as troublemakers.
The Vales, specialists in sustainable living at Victoria University of Wellington, analysed popular brands of pet food and calculated that a medium-sized dog eats around 164 kilos (360 pounds) of meat and 95 kilos of cereal a year.
Combine the land required to generate its food and a “medium” sized dog has an annual footprint of 0.84 hectares (2.07 acres) — around twice the 0.41 hectares required by a 4×4 driving 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) a year, including energy to build the car.
To confirm the results, the New Scientist magazine asked John Barrett at the Stockholm Environment Institute in York, Britain, to calculate eco-pawprints based on his own data. The results were essentially the same.
“Owning a dog really is quite an extravagance, mainly because of the carbon footprint of meat,” Barrett said.
Other animals aren’t much better for the environment, the Vales say. [AFP]
Judging by the above picture the American East Coast could use a little global warming right now. However, the big story is the natural evolution of the eco-faith. Now we can add animal sacrifice to their list of rituals. I wonder if the high priest Al Gore will conduct the first sacrificial rights for the eco-faithful?
Here is an example of what you can expect to see in America if Cap & Trade passes, Carbon Cops!:
REFORMS TO ENHANCE POLICE CAPABILITY
18 December 2009
Minister for Home Affairs, Brendan O’Connor, today announced significant administrative reforms to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) as part of the government’s response to the Federal Audit of Police Capabilities…
The major areas of reform include:
a new funding structure providing flexibility to meet existing and emerging priorities including: counter-terrorism; serious and organised crime, including e-security crime; border protection; overseas deployments and peace keeping; criminal law enforcement in business regulation; and support to the enforcement of the anticipated Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. [Andrew Bolt]
In the wake of the ClimateGate scandal that exposed how climate data was being manipulated, comes news that the climate data from New Zealand has been manipulated as well. Here is the graph the New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research has been putting out in defense of global warming in New Zealand:
However, a group called the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition went and conducted their own audit of the raw temperature data from each of the stations that this graph was made from and this is what they got:
Big difference in graphs huh? So how did the New Zealand government get such a slanted graph? Well they intentionally changed the data to give the stations cooler temperatures in earlier years and warmer temperatures in later years to get a more slanted graph. Make sure to read the whole report because it is amazing how blatant this fraud is. These findings don’t surprise me at all because when I went hiked around New Zealand’s Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers I found out that these glaciers had retreated drastically in prior decades long before any SUV’s and are now again growing in size.
So who is the man behind this fraud? His name is Jim Salinger, a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change who started work on the series when he was with the University of East Anglia, which is the same university at the heart of the ClimateGate scandal. So now we know where he learned his data manipulating tricks from.
You can read more from Anthony Watts on Salinger’s excuse for manipulating the data and his refusal to release his methods.
I am just wondering what other East Anglia scientists are out there around the globe manipulating climate data like Salinger?
As I have been saying for quite some time now, global warming is a hoax:
COMPUTER hackers have broken into Britain’s leading climate science research centre, making public thousands of private emails between top climate change scientists.
The messages – more than 2000 emails and 3000 documents – lay bare bitter disagreements about the cause of climate change.
In one email, the head of Britain’s Climatic Research Unit, Phil Jones, says he is “cheered” by news of the sudden death of a prominent Australian climate sceptic, John L. Daly, who died of a heart attack at his Launceston home in 2004.
Others show scientists referring to sceptical colleagues as “prats”, “charlatans” and “idiots”.
The emails also acknowledge the frustration of trying to find evidence to “prove” man-made climate change.
In one email, Kevin Trenberth, a climatologist at the US Centre for Atmospheric Research, who supports the theory of man-made climate change, says: “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment, and it is a travesty that we can’t.” [The Australian]
It is unbelievable that hacked emails from Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account gets more media coverage than evidence of the biggest scientific hoax in history.
I can’t stand Paul Watson for a variety of reasons and it appears he has worn out his welcome with the Australian government as well:
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s planned mission this winter against the Japanese whaling effort has hit a snag because Capt. Paul Watson and his first officer are experiencing visa issues and so far are not being allowed into Australia.
Outposts reported on this Monday. Australia is the strategic point of departure for Sea Shepherd, which annually hunts and harasses the Japanese harpoon and factory vessels as their crews seek to kill minke whales in the Antarctic region during its summer.
Watson claims politics are behind the stringent visa requirements he’s being asked to comply with and on Tuesday posted a letter on the Sea Shepherd website blasting Australia’s government for its stance on whaling and for trying to “sabotage” the Sea Shepherd campaign. [LA Times]
Click the link to read all about Watson’s whinging.
Australia isn’t the only country that Watson has worn out his welcome at, even the French, (yes the French!) have grown tired of Watson’s act.
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