What’s All This Then!

Have you heard of the famous greenhouse scientist, Dr. David Evans? If you’re familiar with the environmental movement, you probably have. From 1999 to 2005, he was consultant to the Australian Greenhouse Office. Recently, he joined a long list of skeptical scientists who question the global warming hysteria. Two weeks ago, he wrote a bombshell of an article called “No smoking hot spot“. Here’s a snippet:

We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet.

But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”

1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.

2. There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None. There is plenty of evidence that global warming has occurred, and theory suggests that carbon emissions should raise temperatures (though by how much is hotly disputed), but there are no observations by anyone that implicate carbon emissions as a significant cause of the recent global warming.

3. The satellites that measure the world’s temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the past year (to the temperature of 1980).

4. The new ice cores show that in the past six global warmings over the past half a million years, the temperature rises occurred on average 800 years before the accompanying rise in atmospheric carbon. Which says something important about which was cause and which was effect.

None of these points are controversial. The alarmist scientists agree with them, though they would dispute their relevance.

So far that debate has just consisted of a simple sleight of hand: show evidence of global warming, and while the audience is stunned at the implications, simply assert that it is due to carbon emissions.

In the minds of the audience, the evidence that global warming has occurred becomes conflated with the alleged cause, and the audience hasn’t noticed that the cause was merely asserted, not proved.

What does this mean for the rest of us???

So there I was, standing in my local IRS office, eagerly waiting to surrender my latest extortion payment when I noticed a new poster on the wall. It was a eye-catching picture of a beautiful sunlit Earth suspended over the black background of space. In large, white letters across the top of the poster was the title “IRS Environmental Policy”. Under the glowing Earth, in smaller white letters, there was about 200 words arranged in three paragraphs. To the lucky reader of this poster, the IRS described how they strived to be the friendliest, most environmentally conscience agency that ever terrorized a planet. It was touching to read all the politically correct, green-sounding jargon. But I think I could have done a better job with much fewer words and much more honest text: “While we at the IRS work diligently to take your money, we will do our very best to not tax the environment as well.”

Imagine that your nightcap is actually something to place on your head to help you sleep. As you rest, this cap massages your brain with magnetic pulses which causes your gray matter to immediately go into the deepest, most restful part of sleep that we need to maintain our health.

Right now, this little goodie is being tested in sleep laboratories at this very moment. If it works, it will be a short trip to the market place where this could rival sleeping pills in sales. Of course, I have no doubt that it will come complete with adversary warning labels: such as “not intended to replace actual sleep”, “do not operate heavy machine while using this product”, and “do not use in the shower”. As long as a side effect isn’t diarrhea, we’ll be good to go, well, you know what I mean.