If Michael Crichton had lived to write a follow-up to State of Fear, the plotline might well have gone like this: at a top secret, state of the art laboratory in Switzerland, scientists finally discover the true cause of “global warming”. It’s the sun, stupid. More specifically – as the Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark has long postulated – it’s the result of cosmic rays which act as a seed for cloud formation. The scientists working on the project are naturally euphoric: this is a major breakthrough which will not only overturn decades of misguided conjecture on so-called Man Made Global Warming but will spare the global economy trillions of dollars which might otherwise have been squandered on utterly pointless efforts to reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions. However, these scientists have failed to realise just how many people – alarmist scientists, huckster politicians, rent-seeking landowners like (the late Michael Crichton’s brilliant and, of course, entirely fictional creation) the absurd, pompous Sir Reginald Leeds Bt, green activists, eco-fund managers, EU technocrats, MSM environmental correspondents – stand to gain from the Man Made “Climate Change” industry. Their discovery must be suppressed at all costs. So, one by one, the scientists on the cosmic ray project find themselves being bumped off, until only one man remains and must race against time to prove, etc, etc…
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Delingpole: Sun Causes Climate Change Shock (5),Afternoon Updates:
12:23 pm EDT, August 31st, 2011 — Cloudy outlook for global-warming faithful
12:52 pm EDT, August 31st, 2011 — Solyndra to Declare Bankruptcy
12:59 pm EDT, August 31st, 2011 — Labor Rules Thwarting ‘Green Jobs’ Agenda (Jock McBile (video): “In politics this is called the left hand not knowing what the right buttock is doing.”)
2:07 om EDT, August 31st, 2011 — Watching A Green Fiction Unravel
Quote: “The science is now all-but-settled on global warming, convincing new evidence demonstrates, but Al Gore, the IPCC and other global warming doomsayers won’t be celebrating. The new findings point to cosmic rays and the sun — not human activities — as the dominant controller of climate on Earth.”
So how long will it be before Al Gore calls sunspots “racist”?
Gore is a lunatic. I’m more concerned about when our own government will stop drinking the kool-ade. It’s clear, and totally irresponsible as “governers”, that they aren’t doing due diligence to climate science. They have decided, and that’s how it’s going to be no matter what the contrary evidence. They are the kings, and we must obey.
Potato: There are entire bureaucratic careers and bureaucratic empires built on AGW. You can’t just drop the whole fraud overnight. Not that I wouldn’t mind trying though. I sometimes wonder what would happen if the elected officials fired 3/4 of the unelected officials.
I don’t expect it to happen overnight. But clearly, with respect to regulation, subsidies, and the general direction of our king, the momentum is still in the wrong direction and is not showing any signs of abating. It is not the fault of the tax payer, who is the financier, that bureaucracies or empires have been built on a house of cards. The king could cut the bullshit today. He has a majority and it is early in the mandate. There are no legitimate excuses for continuing to pander to the ecofascists.
My first experience with climate change was back in the 60s, when droughts in the prairies caused severe hardship for farmers. One day, the saviour came, held a meeting and farmers attended. He had a plan to seed clouds to cause rain. It would only cost the farmer x dollars per acre to sign up to get this rain. He guaranteed to increase rainfall by 50% of the previous year. He never explained how those of us who didn’t drink the koolaid would not get rain if all surrounding farmers signed up.
Meeting broke up with great anticipation, but no money paid. I asked hubby a question, how much rain did we get last year and how much do we need to get an average crop. Being a city girl I was clueless. We had 2 inches of rain and needed about 6 inches to get said average crop. Being a math genius I asked, how much is 50% of 2. He eventually got the answer and realized that 3 inches of rain was not worth the cost. We spread the word, and the saviour left town with empty pockets.
We did get the rain, without help, and harvested an above average crop.
Haven’t believed a word of algore, suzuki, mae, or the IPPC since.
Global warming was not mentioned at that meeting, just climate change.