Innocent Bystanders

The Actual Results of Global Warming June 24, 2011

Since the Little Ice Age, which occurred after the Medieval Warm Period, both of which were normal climate variations (like our current time, which now appears to be unrelated to CO2), women are currently inclined to wear fewer clothes.  I’m waiting for an informed opinion from Chris Matthews (see previous post about the genius of Chris Matthews).

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I don’t know why we are seeing so much female flesh these days.  Could be sunspots, ocean currents, volcanic activity beneath the arctic zone, cloud formation in the tropic zones — who knows?

Nobody, that’s who.  All we really know is that CO2 is not a significant factor.   Previously, CO2 was considered a benign gas with a well-known “fertilizer effect.”  The CO2 belched out by coal-fired power plants is no different than the CO2 exhaled by tropical rain forests.

Here’s the problem with vilifying man-made CO2  — they can’t find the water vapor hot spots in the tropical upper atmosphere that their computer models require, despite launching tens of thousands of weather balloons over the last decade to find them.  Meanwhile, CO2 has been increasing from an itsy bitsy part of the atmosphere to a teensy weensy little bit more of an itsy bitsy part of the atmosphere, and all their computer models are broken because they can’t understand why the atmosphere has not warmed over the last decade.  I mean, ten years ago they told us that we were at the “tipping point” of a global catastrophe unless we (advanced nations) submitted to an international regime to regulate CO2 emissions that would cripple our economy, and of course we should start paying reparations to corrupt African dictatorships because they would be hardest hit by our profligate energy consumption.

What happened when we ignored this appeal?  Nothing.

Well, not quite.  The Euroweenies adopted a cap and trade scheme that was hugely corrupt and accomplished nothing, even by it’s own standards.  No surprise there.  We have gotten used to the fact that Europeans are stupid.

The reason for all this is that the real greenhouse gas is water.  CO2 is, by itself, insignificant.  It only captures a minor bit of the sun’s spectrum, and 80% of the earth’s energy budget occurs in the tropic latitudes and is controlled by water, including how clouds reflect back radiation to space, and how tropical thunderstorms operate as giant air conditioners that automatically react to surface temperatures and evaporation rates.

Their assumption that tiny amounts of CO2 create a “water vapor feedback loop” in the upper atmosphere of  the tropic zones has been totally trashed  by data. I.e., real science — not computer models and IPCC propaganda.

That’s the dirty secret of the Global Warming Religion.

Hey guys, keep launching your weather balloons.  Try to find those water vapor “hot spots.”  I’m heading for the beach.  I’ll be driving an SUV.

Dumbest Chris Matthews Clip Ever June 24, 2011

It’s hard to know where to start.  He thinks that Al Gore has made the science clear with his “helluva clear” documentary.  He thinks that Republicans are mostly 5,000-year fundamentalist creationists.  He tries to gain some cred by asserting that Obama has not been aggressive enough using the bully pulpit on the global warming issue.

But, the issue is, given that the science is indisputable (hey Chris, computer models are not actually science and they have already been falsified), do we actually blame Obama for this failure of resolve?  Or do we blame those irrational, duplicitous and evil talk radio guys like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, who really really know better because they are not dumb, but are in the pocket of big business?

Jeebers, it’s hard to respond to this level of stupid.  You don’t know where to start.

Just listen:

Eric Holder, Intentional Man of Mystery June 20, 2011

Eric Holder disavows any prior knowledge of the Fast & Furious gun-running plan, but Darrell Issa isn’t buying it:

…Issa says he does not believe Attorney General Eric Holder testified accurately in the Judiciary Committee on May 3, when he told Issa (who also serves on that committee) that he had only learned of the gun-running operation—called “Operation Fast and Furious”–a few weeks before that.

I think we can all see how this is gonna go:

Quartermaster Clerk: One DoJ-made Fast & Furious Gun-Running Plan.
Eric Holder: [to Issa] That’s not mine.
Quartermaster Clerk: One credit card receipt for DoJ-made Fast & Furious Gun-Running Plan signed by Eric Holder.
Eric Holder: I’m telling ya baby, that’s not mine.
Quartermaster Clerk: One warranty card for DoJ-made Fast & Furious Gun-Running Plan, filled out by Eric Holder.
Eric Holder: I don’t even know what this is! This sort of thing ain’t my bag, baby.
Quartermaster Clerk: One book, “DoJ-made Fast & Furious Gun-Running Plan And Me: This Sort of Thing Is My Bag Baby”, by Eric Holder