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Title: Wasting More Money on Climate Science Illustration
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Published: Jan 17, 2017
Author: Richard W. Rahn - -
Post Date: 2017-01-17 16:27:31 by tpaine
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Wasting More Money on Climate Science Illustration

By Richard W. Rahn - - Monday, January 16, 2017at

The rains have returned to California, and the six-year drought appears to be largely over. We have heard countless assertions from journalists and politicians, ignorant of the weather history of California and the other western states, that the drought was a result of global warming.

In the January edition of Scientific American, there is a well-told story “California Megaflood: Lessons from a Forgotten Catastrophe” by B. Lynn Ingram, a professor of earth and planetary science at the University of California, Berkley. She notes: “Geologic evidence shows that truly massive floods, caused by rainfall alone, have occurred in California every 100 to 200 years. The only megaflood to strike the American West in recent history occurred during the winter of 1861-62. California bore the brunt of the damage. This disaster turned enormous regions of the state into inland seas for months, and took thousands of human lives. The costs were devastating: One quarter of California’s economy was destroyed, forcing the state into bankruptcy.” The floods followed “two exceptionally dry decades.” People are endlessly surprised by some unusual weather, geological, political or economic event, often with the erroneous assumption that such a thing has never happened before. This lack of historical knowledge is not confined to the poorly educated, but often experts in some field or another do not know the history of their own discipline. With the advent of low-cost, powerful computers, mathematical model-building has become all the rage. I am all for model-building, provided the models are tempered with historical reality. A way of testing the predictive ability of a particular model is to compare its predictions against the observed data.

For instance, there had been a pause in global warming for nearly two decades, despite the rise in carbon-dioxide emissions, which none of the major climate models had predicted. Climate scientists Patrick Michaels and Chip Knappenberger of the Cato Institute compared observed warming rates from 1950 to predictions made by 108 models. In virtually all cases, at a statistically significant level, the models projected much higher rates of warming than actually occurred. The fact that models all erred in one direction indicates that they misspecified one or more major variables or they were subject to bias.

The pressure for bias is easy to understand. Most climate studies and models are funded by governments. Governments throw money at what are perceived to be major problems. If researchers come back and say there is no big crisis — then the money faucet gets turned off.

Climate modelers have been perplexed as to why the predicted increase in carbon dioxide that has occurred has not resulted in the predicted higher temperatures. The Earth has become greener as carbon dioxide — which plants need — has increased as a percentage of the atmosphere.

It has also long been known that sunspot activity is correlated with global temperature changes — with warm periods coinciding with higher levels of sunspots and vice-versa. Researchers have also known that clouds have great effect on Earth’s temperature. Some clouds hold in heat; others reflect sunlight — but cloud science is not well understood. Fortunately, researchers at CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research), which operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world in Geneva, Switzerland, appear to have come up with an explanation. Their experiments show that fewer sunspots result in less solar wind, which enables more cosmic rays to reach Earth and create more ionized clouds, which “make clouds more reflective.”

Climate alarmists never tire of saying “97 percent of all scientists agree” without ever providing the exact wording of the question and precisely who was surveyed. Yes, almost everyone agrees that the Earth has been slowly warming since the end of the last ice age, and that man has some influence on climate — particularly micro-climates such as the heat islands that cities cause. That being said, there is much that is not known with precision, such as the real rate of global warming — and thus whether or not it is real problem, how much is caused by man and how and what can be now done in a cost-effective way to deal with it, including adapting to it, or whether we should just leave it to future generations who will have much more knowledge and technology to deal with any climate problems. Shouting “denier” to those who raise legitimate questions neither leads to civil discourse or greater understanding.

Costly regulations and mandates to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions that will have little or no global effect on temperatures over the next century make no sense. There has been no agreement on what the optimal level of carbon dioxide is, or what the optimal Earth temperature should be. We do know that plants grow faster with more carbon dioxide and thus food becomes cheaper, and that most people (including the Hollywood climate activist crowd) prefer warmer places over colder ones.

If the “science was settled,” hundreds of millions of dollars would no longer be spent on trying to understand the various factors that influence climate and trying to build better climate models. Two hundred years ago, many medical doctors thought you could improve a patient by bleeding him or her. Many needlessly died as a result — including perhaps George Washington. The economy is now being unnecessarily bled by the environmental “doctors” who fail to admit their own ignorance.

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To: bLazamataz

In 1907, a book was published called “Lord of the World.”

This book is about the a U.S. Senator named Julian Felsenburgh, who quickly ascends to become “President of the World.” Felsenburgh has unusual parallels with Obama including that they are both U.S. Senators, both charismatic speakers, and both have visited Paris for major conventions.

Felsenburgh visited Paris and presided over a peace treaty as Europe spiraled into chaos. There was rioting in the streets, people dying, and protests, yet Felsenburgh quells all of it with his promise of peace.

Last year, a major convention was organized surrounding the hoax known as climate change.

This was nothing more than a reorganization of the world toward a new order.

It was not about the climate.

Now, Obama appears to be pulling the strings behind a push for peace among Israel and Palestine. Firstly, he instructed Samantha Power at the U.N. to abstain from a vote condemning Israel for building settlements.

Secondly, he orchestrates a Paris convention involving 70 countries gathering together to discuss peace in the Holy Land and a two-state solution. The catch is that neither Israel nor Palestine will be at the meeting.

They will be completely removed from direct conversation with the 70 countries. Perhaps a two-state solution will be accomplished without Israel of Palestine present.

The move to have a major convention about solving one of the world’s greatest land conflicts just five days before a president leaves office is unprecedented.

Why Obama would decide to do such a thing is not known.

Nonetheless, he will send Kerry, likely Samantha Power, and an entire American delegation to Paris.

Julian Felsenburgh also did the same thing when he signed a peace treaty.

In the novel, Lord of the World, we also meet another character named Father Francis, a Roman Catholic who leaves the church and joins Felsenburgh’s new world religion.

This religion is a combination of mother goddess worship and Freemasonry.

Felsenburgh is, himself, a 33 year old Freemason who hates organized religion, especially Christianity.

After he takes power, he orders Christians to be killed if they do not renounce their faith.

We should be questioning if a 1907 prophecy is coming to life right now. Several people, including a former pontiff, have suggested that “Lord of the World” is a prophecy in the form of a narrative.

Pope Benedict 16 called the novel prophetic, while Pope Francis encouraged people two read it.

He stated that the book portrayed the transition of the world toward the “globalization of hegemonic uniformity.”

He neglects to tell the audience that this uniformity is achieved through ... great violence - death - destruction --- carried out by the Antichrist, Julian Felsenburgh.

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BorisY  posted on  2017-01-17   16:56:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: BorisY (#1)

Lord of the World,

Available free on Amazon....

tpaine  posted on  2017-01-17   17:15:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: tpaine (#0) (Edited)

“science was settled

The science is settled, change is happening. The details are a little sketchy, sort of a haze around the edges, no wait, that's a Beijing smog caused by climate change, no wait, I got that wrong, the cause of climate change, at least for the Chinese, meanwhile I sit under beautiful azure blue skies at 38C and wonder what the fuss is about. This is definately a northern hemisphere problem caused by rampant capitalism and despotism and all that hot air in New York and Washington

Theory number two, observable Climate Change has been happening for, well, at least ten thousand years and a 27,000 year cycle in advancing and retreading ice has been observed. We are half way between ice ages, meaning things will get a little hot, but don't worry, man will save the day and finally figure out how to move us further from the sun. Reducing CO2 omissions won't get it done, too late but if all else fails we can have anuclear war, and hey presto, instant ice age (nuclear winter)

paraclete  posted on  2017-01-17   19:01:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: paraclete (#3)

The science is settled, change is happening.

Climate alarmists never tire of saying “97 percent of all scientists agree” without ever providing the exact wording of the question and precisely who was surveyed. Yes, almost everyone agrees that the Earth has been slowly warming since the end of the last ice age, and that man has some influence on climate — particularly micro-climates such as the heat islands that cities cause. That being said, there is much that is not known with precision, such as the real rate of global warming — and thus whether or not it (is it) a real problem, how much is caused by man and how and what can be now done in a cost-effective way to deal with it????

tpaine  posted on  2017-01-17   19:28:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: tpaine (#2)

The untold story of the massive rains and floods as the drought ends is, why haven't there been any reservoirs built to catch water when it does fall?

Exercising rights is only radical to two people, Tyrants and Slaves. Which are YOU? Our ignorance has driven us into slavery and we do not recognize it.

jeremiad  posted on  2017-01-17   21:52:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: jeremiad (#5)

why haven't there been any reservoirs built to catch water when it does fall?

California has plenty of reservoirs and bypasses already built. ---- We will never have another flood like the one in the 1860's.

tpaine  posted on  2017-01-18   1:16:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: tpaine (#6)

I disagree, there is always more someone can do to capture rainfall for future use. Even it is just more tanks to fill, or a covered reservoir.

Exercising rights is only radical to two people, Tyrants and Slaves. Which are YOU? Our ignorance has driven us into slavery and we do not recognize it.

jeremiad  posted on  2017-01-18   2:20:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: jeremiad (#7)

there is always more someone can do to capture rainfall for future use. Even it is just more tanks to fill, or a covered reservoir.

True enough.

I have no objections to building more reservoirs for water storage, but we don't really need them for flood control.

tpaine  posted on  2017-01-18   17:34:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: tpaine (#8)

I agree, and do not know the first thing about flood control efforts in California. I just know that water capture is a very economical thing, and CA seems to go through droughts often enough to spend at least as much on it as on surgery for sexual reassignment for State employees and prisoners.

Exercising rights is only radical to two people, Tyrants and Slaves. Which are YOU? Our ignorance has driven us into slavery and we do not recognize it.

jeremiad  posted on  2017-01-20   13:13:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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