Must be nice to be able to jet to Bali to have a conference to worry about global warming. Good thing AlGore's selling carbon credits - I'd hate to think what penance they'd have to do otherwise!
And they'd better get in their fun - pretty soon the Global Warming bandwagon's going to shed a wheel...
Global Cooling?As I've pointed out before, we should be on the downslope of a cooling trend and if temperatures hadn't been moderated by agricultural methane emissions, we'd be Canada-deep in severe glaciation.The official thermometers at the U.S. National Climate Data Center show a slight global cooling trend over the last seven years, from 1998 to 2005.
Actually, global warming is likely to continue—but the interruption of the recent strong warming trend sharply undercuts the argument that our global warming is an urgent, man-made emergency. The seven-year decline makes our warming look much more like the moderate, erratic warming to be expected when the planet naturally shifts from a Little Ice Age (1300–1850 AD) to a centuries-long warm phase like the Medieval Warming (950–1300 AD) or the Roman Warming (200 BC– 600 AD).
But hey, it's a good excuse to throw a UN-sponsored party... in Bali!
You know, I'll believe global warming is a crisis when those who are saying it's a problem start acting like it. Flying 12,000 people to Bali... well, that's one hell of a crisis-management junket. AlGore jet-setting around in a private jet promoting the idea? Seems to me they're just adding to the problem.
Of course, they ARE the priveleged ones. We peasants shouldn't question our betters and all...
J.
Comments (1)
Ah, if they only lived the lifestyle they want to impose, it would be the tramp freighter for them all and be very lucky to show up at all on the given day... 'to save the environment we had to destroy it'.
Like any international confab, be it Annapolis, Bali, or your basic do-gooder collection of NGOs bemoaning the latest hairstyle, the impact it will have on the actual, real world will be null. When was the last time such an international collection actually *solved* a problem? The 1909 opium convention in Shanghai brought us the world of narco-terrorism, drug lords, drug cartels and, yes, millions if not tens of millions addicted to heroin, cocaine and the such. Worked out *perfectly*!
After that you have to get to smallpox, which could have been done via a separate, small working group from the UN, without the massive UN overhead and jetting around and conferences and such. How about 'global hunger' or 'global poverty' or 'global donuts'? Solved yet? I am sure the fat police will get to the latter sooner or later...
These same incompetents the President and Senate want to hand over our ability to control our own vessels to, via LOST. They 'promise' to exempt 'military' craft, but they will *make the rules* on that, so I am sure they will make it only for coastal patrol vessels under 5' draft and anything over that is 'commercial'. Remember, when you let other Nations write the rules for your commerce, you have given it away to them. Mind you, we haven't needed such for airspace and air transport, and we have lotsa treaties on those and they are absolutely voluntary. Which reallly does beg the question: how can you do something 'global' if it is 'optional'?
You can't.
Bad job.
Think local, act local and if it gets really bad, then move off-planet.
Productivity and sensibility are an inverse proportion relationship: perfect action is one person doing one thing, the more you add in the less reliable it gets due to all the factors involved. Cities don't, actually, manage traffic - they have a system of coordinted lights that manage themselves, and we let individuals making decisions on the rules of the road handle the rest. If you look at the international banking system and 'requirements' to 'know your customer' we find that won't stop international drug dealers and such from actually using them: they are 'known' and reliable for cash! Yes! Now some banks are trying to be convinced that is a *bad thing*...
The 'international conferences' that *do* work? Peace conferences with a defeated enemy. Those work quite well, so long as you are intent on creating peace and not exacting retribution. We have had too many of the latter and not enough of the former in history... as a species we need to wise-up on that.
As for GW: ever see the temperature graphs for previous inter-glacial periods? Those babies spike and drop like you would not believe. We are in one of those periods and what do we see? Quick spikes and drops. This is different from previous interglacial periods in what way? We haven't trended any faster, any higher, nor more consistantly than any of the previous ones... how is ours out of the norm beyond the fact we are here and alive for this one and weren't for the previous ones.... *special* are we? I have pretty much had it with the pseudo-science political science trying to make science. It doesn't correlate with the known numbers, therefore it is disproven. That goes for temps, carbon dioxide, methane and water vapor amounts: the GW hypothesis fits no known data types over 600 million years to allow it to be factually accurate. Fitting 200 years or 20 seconds does not matter on that timescale, and the GW folks are having trouble with both 200 years and 20 seconds, not to speak of 600 million years.
But those going to the conferences are so *special* to care so much... really they do and they will tell you at length about their special caringness. Of money they actually donate to the poor? Well, governments do that... no personal responsibility at all... just let government do everything...
Personally, I am fed up with the global do-gooders and the local ones, come to think of it.
Posted by ajacksonian | November 28, 2007 6:27 PM
Posted on November 28, 2007 18:27