Henri Frederic Amiel :-
“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.”

The only things rising in concert with the evil gas CO2 are taxes, blind faith and insanity.

Is CO2 causing insanity? Judging from the stupidity, ignorance, dogmatism and fundamentalist demagoguery that abounds today future historians may assume this to be the case. A vital component of life on this planet is being treated as if it were a demonic creature sucking the life out of mother nature and her cute inhabitants. The gas you breath out whilst you read this rant is vilified by the Gorons who know nothing of where its levels were 1000 years ago as the only proxy they rely on was pulled from the ice using diesel as a lubricant! The bubbles in the core explosively decompress as the core reaches the surface and the main components of our atmosphere, nitrogen and oxygen, have between 30 and 70 times more affinity with cold water than CO2. The life giving gas, which you see in action as you watch your children grow, is therefore smeared across time – the further you go back the lower the concentrations will seem to be. Those future historians may come to believe that a side effect of “too much CO2″ was a misguided belief that a 0.6C increase in global temperatures (whatever they are) was anything other than benign.

The tax aspect of course is political. The AlGorithm has “been given” nearly $1,000,000,000 in the last 6 weeks. $300,000,000 for “advertising” to the unbelievers that his “settled science” is gospel and a further $680,000,000 to “invest” in companies he already has an interest in.
In the face of stuff like this it is no wonder that the compliant main stream media has kicked other news under the carpet. News like:
The United Nations World Meteorological Organization recently reported that because of “part of what we call ‘variability’” global temperatures have not risen since 1998. This was explained away by WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud as a cool spell brought on by the Pacific Ocean’s La Nina current. That wouldn’t be so bad in isolation but, as anyone who has had a look around will know, we are also in unknown territory as far as solar cycle 24 is concerned and with every passing day that it remains absent we will, in the near future, suffer from the cold. Furthermore, the Argo buoys, which were commissioned to end the unbelievers arguments, have failed to detect any signs of climate change. Dr. Josh Willis said, in an interview with National Public Radio, “there has been a very slight cooling” over the buoy’s five years of observation. One would hazard that if they showed “a very slight warming” we would still be listening to the crowing.

Some links of current (pun intended) interest:

weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html

weather.unisys.com/surface/sst.html

icecap.us/docs/change/ocean_cycle_forecasts.pdf

ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel3/4810/13419/00615324.pdf?temp=x

and temps:

climate.uah.edu/maps/0408big.jpg

www.flickr.com/photos/7672614@N05/2319280978/

Time to stand up and be counted.

Harry Emerson Fosdick :-
“The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.”

The article here: www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/02/a_tale_of_two_thermometers/ explains it better than anywhere in my opinion. Thus I leave it all to them. You couldn’t make this stuff up. With this revelation and the “news” that the PDO or the thermohaline circulation or the meridional overturning circulation being factored into a model for the first time has resulted in a new “estimate” that cooling will continue until 2015 – {klaxon}eeeerrggghh! I will have to stop you there. Wrong. Sorry, but 2015 is due to be very(very) cold in comparison to the the hallowed year of our Gored 1998. Time for someone to post all those temperature lists from …. oh yeah, one of the cheats. Time for someone to call me “useless troll” again – and express the hope that I hold zero scientific qualifications… again. Time for someone to explain why another stupid hack or paid lackey of the oil/coal companies or retired people who are out of their field or non climate scientists or someone who once proved secondary smoke doesn’t kill or a denialist nutter have got it all wrong and the news from realclimate/tamino/nasa is that we are still going to fry just not quite yet. Not before the next round of funding at least. Time for someone to cut’n'paste some stale stuff from a weird place. Time for the charlatans to be uncovered. Time for tax refunds, Oscar returns and Nobel retractions. Time for the “what to do about the cold?” and “can we stop making biofools of ourselves please?” type questions – oh, and let us debate the science in a public place. Soon too.
Unfortunately it is also time to endure the shrill shrieks of the true faithful writhing and contorting in ecstatic whirls in defense of the new spin – “Praise be! We have been given this holy pause in order to fulfill thy works oh Bored. We can take this blessed respite and pour despite all over it by insisting to the infidel that it will get warmer next time it gets warmer”. “Let us pay oh Bored”.
There may yet be apostasy. I always hold the hope that mankind solves problems, and learns whilst doing so. Hopefully this cool period before the cold will allow us to show conclusively that CO2 should be loved, up to and beyond say… 800ppmv to be on the safe side of caution. By then if we have not contained fusion or done better then we deserve to run out of “fossil” fuels.

Somewhere, not too far in the distance, crickets chirp…