House of Eratosthenes

This year, your government will spend in the neighborhood of $4 billion on global warming research, despite the fact that there has been no global warming since 1998, and despite all of the billions that have been spent so far yielding no conclusive evidence that using fossil fuels to make energy has any significant effect on Earth’s temperature.

The human component of carbon dioxide that is injected into the air each year is very small, on the order of 3%. Half the carbon dioxide emitted into the air by human activity each year is immediately absorbed into nature. Carbon dioxide is 8% of the greenhouse effect; water in the air is 90% of the greenhouse effect. By volume, carbon dioxide is currently at about 390 parts per million in the atmosphere, increasing at about 2 parts per million annually. In other words, carbon dioxide is increasing at a rate of .5% per year. Since human activity adds 3% of the carbon dioxide that gets into the air each year, the human component of the increase in carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year is 3 % of .5%, or just .015%.
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Redundancy on top of redundancy, piles of money on top of piles of money. All to study climate change, which, according to the theory, should be warming us rapidly, but, according to the data, has stopped. How much of the requested money these government agencies actually get is not yet known. The way they spend money in Washington, you can rest assured they’ll get most of it.

If you’re looking to cut the budget, climate change is a good place to start. If we don’t get a handle on Washington’s spending soon, and I mean very soon, climate change will be the least of our problems.

Man, I couldn’t be more tired of the whole GW bullshit. Up her in the great white north, Western NY, we were 4.5! degrees below average for Dec. and we’ve been well below for Jan. too. Today and for the next couple days we’ll be in the teens for highs and low single digits or below zero for lows. And don’t even start with the “weather is different than global trends” or whatever BS. We’re not experience the same, equal warming in the warmer months..which would only make sense if GW was indeed happening. No freakin’ signs here of any of that shit, just the opposite. Summers are either cooler or certainly normal, not warmer than usual. Not experiencing any intense heat waves.

I guess we’re not spending enough of research. When, not if, this whole scam is exposed I want my fair share of tax money spent of this crap returned to me. It may offset some the cash I’m spending on heating my house during this GW period. Plus I may have to move because of the coming ice age.
- tim | 01/21/2011 @ 10:43
It’s a mutual-=istic relationship between the AGW scientists and the politicians.

The scientists keep their funding – that after all is the #1 goal of scientists, it seems…not answering questions or exploring possibilities – by continuing to call for more study on a “crisis” situation. Do you think these scientists would continue to get funding if they admitted the problem doesn’t exist – that is, that any warming observed is naturally-occurring and therefore beyond human control? Who would fund a research grant for THAT? The few who are honest enough to point out this nonsense and/or express skepticism about the conclusions…are the ones who get their funding cut off and get ostracized and hounded out of the peer-review process. (Just like with the ones who dare challenge the Darwinistic evolution orthodoxy.)

The politicians, meanwhile, not only buy the votes of the scientists and those who respect said scientists’ work…they also get to point to this fudged “scientific data” – produced by the same scientists on the government’s payroll – as evidence of “warming.” Then they get to pass all kinds of laws enlarging their control over our lives, as well as environmentally-friendly pork barrel projects. Which buy votes in their home districts.

The entire thing is a big circular sham. The scientists and politicians scratch each others’ backs…and you and I are paying for the back scratchers, as well as suffering the consequences and added expense imposed by the misguided, intellectually-dishonest regulations that result.
- cylarz | 01/23/2011 @ 00:17
As we lose our respect for masculinity, it seems our culture is sliding into a trap that must have engulfed any other culture that similarly lost its respect for masculinity. The common mistake I see us making more and more often has to do with defining success according to the approval that is earned from outside sources, while it seems nobody in any position of authority is taking the trouble to discern who these outside sources are that are dispensing this conditional approval. Or, what is motivating them.

I’m referring here specifically to this controversial remark our current President made while He was campaigning, something about “we can’t turn our thermostats to 72 degrees and think Europe is going to say that’s okay” (lightly paraphrased).

My grandfather, the one who died before I was born, was said to joke that German men like to slap their wives in the ass in the morning and come home to find her still jiggling. It was implicitly understood this was a commentary upon German diet, and the German sense of a woman’s ideal body composition & shape. In recent years, I have come to wonder if Grandpa was making a commentary upon the length of the German workday, as it seems Germans & Europeans in general have earned a lot of ridicule about their work days & vacation schedules. I see a connection between localized work — by which I mean, you set your goals, you set your own hours, you figure out what the priorities are, you take responsibility for getting it all done — and this emasculated view of the world where the object of any given exercise shrivels down to nothing more than earning approval from an unidentified outside entity. If your paramount goal is to get something done, you’re not going to give a shit. If you’re doing less work, and life has a lot more to do with being entertained properly as you sit at a cafe watching pigeons crap all over the place in St. Mark’s square, or as you sit on a dilapidated futon playing games on a XBox 360, then you’ll be more fired up about meeting the approval of outsiders. Or, forming an opinion about whether some other outsider should meet with your approval.

I also notice we’re getting more and more concerned about whether the “poor” can receive the resources they need. If the resources come from the government, we print up these things called newspapers that print lots of headlines about how there isn’t enough money in the kitty. We read these headlines, cluck & moan & shake our heads, discuss it at the water cooler a little bit, and feel much better about ourselves even though we know the deficits discussed in next year’s headlines will be even bigger.

If the resources come from the private sector, we scowl about what a bunch of big meanies those people are in the private sector, then we come up with ways to transfer the provision of the resources into the government, so that when the resources aren’t provided we can print up some headlines about it and cluck & moan about it to feel good about ourselves. Outside of these two preceding paragraphs, there is very little we are doing to make sure the poor receive the resources they are supposed to be needing, even though we’re all supposed to be so very, very, very concerned about it.
- mkfreeberg | 01/23/2011 @ 01:22

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