Today’s Global Warming Quote of the Day comes from no less than Albert Einstein:
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”
How’s that relevant you ask? Check out those vaunted computer models. See what they count. Then see what they don’t count. Then understand that their projections into the future are a combination of crysal ball gazing and looking through a glass darkly.
What don’t they count? How about solar effects? How about clouds and other water vapor in the atmosphere? And of course, not only can’t they count what they can’t quantify, they can’t count what they don’t yet know exists.
We’re wondering what other temperature-related factors will be turned up in the future that haven’t been included in the computer model equations. And then there’s the problem that what is included in the equations is grossly distorted by the absence of what’s not.
Aw, what the heck. Let’s adopt that umpty hundred billion dollar annual global warming cap-and-tax plan anyway.
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Another day, another denier quote by Mark.
Ho hum.
Just like his weekend prediction that a green industry won’t be profitable.
Liked the one comment. Since Mark is so prescient, can he predict when the OC Register finally calls it quits?
Wow, look at all those hurricanes in the Caribbean this year. More and stronger storms. Just like Al Gore said.
No denying here, just facts.
OC Dem, your tactics are so predictable. When you can’t counter facts, attack the writer.
Well the democratic legislature opened up off shore drilling in order to balance the budget.
Why didn’t they mandate windmills instead?
Maybe because green industry isn’t profitable.
Check again, the democratic controlled congress did approve it then rescinded it due to pressure from Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein. All three of these women are from San Francisco. Their opinions are as bad as those from New York (nothing west of the Hudson River) and DC (nothing outside the beltway matters).
Think about this:
Let’s drill off California’s shore for petroleum. Tax each barrel (more than currently taxed) and what can you get:
1. New tax money to support alternative energy sources
2. Stabilization of gas prices
3. Less demand on oil from countries like Venezuela.
But no one in the California legislature has enough strength to put this on the table. Thank your environmental lobbyists for this.
Did some one say “look at all those hurricanes?” Tongue in cheek, no doubt.
Actually, hurricanes are down. Even as CO2 is up. Go figure.
“Global hurricane activity over the past two years fell to its lowest level in at least 30 years, according to a researcher at the Florida State University Center for Ocean-Atmosphere Prediction Studies.”
http://www.heartland.org/article/25676/Global_Hurricane_Activity_Lowest_in_30_Years.html
Then there’s this: “Certainly, the previous huge hurricanes that we had in the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, didn’t have anything to do with mankind’s production of CO2 because we hadn’t produced very much by then, and I find it just irresponsible that anyone would claim that this (Katrina) hurricane was caused by global warming.” - Dr. Roy Spencer.
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4405
Spencer’s credentials: research scientist for University of Alabama in Huntsville. In the past, he has served as Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where he directed research into the development and application of satellite passive microwave remote sensing techniques for measuring global temperature, water vapor, and precipitation. He currently is the U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on NASA’s Aqua satellite.
At your service in Christ . . .
Mark Landsbaum
Then there’s the list of the ten worst hurricanes ever.
1. 1970, November 13 - East Pakistan (Bangladesh) - killed 500,000 to 1 million
2. 1737, October 7 - Bengal, India - Over 300,000 dead
3. 1881 - Haiphong, Vietnam - killed 300,000
4. 1876 - Bengal, India - killed 200,000
5. 1882, June 6 - Bombay, India - Over 100,000 dead
6. 1864, October 5 - Calcutta, India - killed 50,000 to 70,000
7. 1965, May and June - East Pakistan (Bangladesh) - killed 35,000 to 40,000
And about California mandating windmills, they already did that with AB32. It’s not a question of if it’s profitable, it’s a question of how much AB32 is the cause of the budget crisis.
I can’t find the figures of how much AB32 cost the State. I’m guessing that Arnold is hiding that figure and sending out feelers to Obama about having the information classified as a national security secret.
But Colorado’s Gov Bill Ritter doesn’t have any qualms about telling it like it is.
In Pueblo, Colorado 450 new “green” jobs cost $32 million, or around $71,000 per job.
You suppose California spends more tax money per “green” job, or less?
Well, in all fairness, I think this hurricane list is flawed because 5 of the years were back when people had no weather warnings other than seeing clouds coming in.
That said, I also think there are flaws in the science of AGW.
And regarding windmill power, it takes 965 sq. miles (31 miles x 31 miles) of windmills to produce 1GW of electricity which will power about 800,000 homes. That’s a lot of windmills and these are only good when the wind is blowing.
Water vapor and cloud models have been included in all the world climate models, that the IPCC uses for their forecasts, since at least the early 1990s.
The IPCC Physical Science Basis has an extensive discussion water vapor and cloud modelling
Look at the IPCC web site physical basis link.
See section 8.6.3.2.2 Interpretation of the range of cloud feedbacks
among climate models in chapter Chapter 8