Re: Smoke one for the Wilkins Ice Shelf
"Miss Elaine Eos" <Misc@your-pants.PlayNaked,com > wrote in message
news:Misc-988764.16445730032008@news.sf.sbcglobal,net ...
> In article <X1VHj.52699$yk5.13975@newsfe18.lga>,
> "Tom S." <t.m.s.work@cox,net > wrote:
>
>> “The shattered part of the Wilkins ice sheet was 160 square miles in
>> area,
>> which is just 0.01% of the total current Antarctic icecover (just 0.003%
>> of
>> the extent last September), like an icicle falling from a snow and ice
>> covered roof. And this winter is coming on quickly. The latest satellite
>> images and reports suggest the ice has already refrozen around the broken
>> pieces. In fact the ice is returning so fast, it is running an amazing
>> 60%
>> ahead (4.0 vs 2.5 million square km extent) of last year when it set a
>> new
>> record. The total ice extent is already approaching the second highest
>> level
>> for extent since the measurements began by satellite in 1979 and just a
>> few
>> days into the Southern Hemisphere fall season and 6 months ahead of the
>> peak. We are very likely going to exceed last year’s record [for Southern
>> Hemisphere ice extent]. Yet the world is left with the false impression
>> Antarctica’s ice sheet is also starting to disappear,” - Meteorologist
>> Joseph D'Aleo
>>
>> (Aleo served as the first Director of Meteorology at The Weather
>> Channel,was
>> the Chief Meteorologist at Weather Services International Corporation and
>> served as chairman of the American Meteorological Society's (AMS)
>> Committee
>> on Weather Analysis and Forecasting.)
>
> Why wasn't this reported in the [liberal] media?! Hmmmm?!?!
>
> Misc "oh, wait. Because the facts don't fit the agenda. Damn!"
Then, too, it may be along the lines of what Steve Milloy reported about a
conference he was invited to which was sponsored by the Wall street Journal:
http :// canadafreepress,com /index.php/article/2307
"Keeping in mind that the current atmospheric CO2 level is 380 ppm and the
projected 2095 CO2 level is about 500 ppm, according to the EPA, what are
the potential global temperature implications for such a slight change in
atmospheric CO2 concentration? Not much, as average global temperature would
only be reduced by a maximum of about 0.10 to 0.20 degrees Celsius,
according to existing research. Sacrificing many trillions of dollars of GDP
for a trivial, 45-year-delayed and merely hypothetical reduction in average
global temperature must be considered as exponentially more asinine than the
dot-bombs of the late-1990s and the NINJA subprime loans that we now look
upon scornfully.
So who in their right mind would push for this? I met many of them
up-close-and-personal last week at a major Wall Street Journal conference at
which I was an invited speaker. My fellow speakers included many CEOs (from
General Electric, Wal-Mart, Duke Energy, and Dow Chemical, to name just a
few), California's Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the heads of several
environmental activist groups.
The audience-a sold-out crowd of hundreds who had to apply to be admitted
and pay a $3,500 fee-consisted of representatives of the myriad businesses
that seek to make a financial killing from climate alarmism. There were
representatives of the solar, wind, and biofuel industries that profit from
taxpayer mandates and subsidies, representatives from financial services
companies that want to trade permits to emit CO2, and public relations and
strategic consultants to all of the above.
We libertarians would call such an event a rent-seekers ball-the vast
majority of the audience was there to plot how they could lock-in profits
from government mandates on taxpayers and consumers. It was an amazing
collection of pseudo-entrepreneurs who were absolutely impervious to the
scientific and economic facts that ought to deflate the global warming
bubble.
In the interlude between presentations by the CEOs of Dow Chemical and Duke
Energy, for example, the audience was shown a slide-similar to this one-of
the diverging relationship between atmospheric CO2 levels and average global
temperature since 1998. That slide should have caused jaws to drop and
audience members to ponder why anyone is considering regulating CO2
emissions in hopes of taming global climate. Instead, it was as if the
audience did a collective blink and missed the slide entirely. When I tried
to draw attention to the slide during my presentation, it was as if I was
speaking in a foreign dialect.
The only conclusion I could come to was that the audience is so steeped in
anticipation of climate profiteering that there is no fact that will cause
them to reconsider whether or not manmade global warming is a reality. The
callousness of their blind greed was also on display at the conference. In
an instantaneous poll, the Wall Street Journal asked the audience to select
the most pressing societal problem from a list of five that included
infectious disease (malaria, AIDs, etc.), terrorism, and global warming. "
Recall that the first points in the collapse of Enron was in their loss of
the Carbon Credit market that they hoped to monopolize.