The Global Warming alarmists keep ratcheting up the rhetoric to ever new heights, trying to scare the livin’ Bejeesus out of us and convince us to submit to more and more onerous taxation via their proposed Cap & Trade Crap & Tax madness. “We have just four months. Four months to secure the future of our planet.” That hyperbole is from the UN’s Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. [Update: taken from this section of these Remarks to the Global Environment Forum:

If we fail to act, climate change will intensify droughts, floods and other natural disasters.

Water shortages will affect hundreds of millions of people. Malnutrition will engulf large parts of the developing world. Tensions will worsen. Social unrest – even violence – could follow.

The damage to national economies will be enormous. The human suffering will be incalculable.

We have the power to change course. But we must do it now.

As we move toward Copenhagen in December, we must “Seal a Deal” on climate change that secures our common future. I'm glad that the Chairman of the forum and many other speakers have used my campaign slogan “Seal the Deal” in Copenhagen. I won't charge them loyalty. Please use this “Seal the Deal” as widely as possible, as much as you can. We must seal the deal in Copenhagen for the future of humanity.

We have just four months. Four months to secure the future of our planet.

Any agreement must be fair, effective, equitable and comprehensive, and based on science. And it must help vulnerable nations adapt to climate change.

Ladies and gentlemen,

The science is clear. We know what to do and we know how to do it. Songdo shows us the way.

[end Update]

Here’s one from Senator Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.) for example. From the Detroit News blog on Tuesday:

Michigan just experienced its coldest July on record; global temperatures haven’t risen in more than a decade; Great Lakes water levels have resumed their 30-year cyclical rise (contrary to a decade of media scare stories that they were drying up due to global warming), and polls show that climate change doesn’t even make a list of Michigan voters’ top-ten concerns.

Yet in an interview with the Detroit News Monday, Senator Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.) – recently appointed to the Senate Energy Committee – made clear that fighting the climate crisis is her top priority.

“Climate change is very real,” she confessed as she embraced cap and trade’s massive tax increase on Michigan industry – at the same time claiming, against all the evidence, that it would not lead to an increase in manufacturing costs or energy prices. “Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I’m flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes.“

There’s some rocket-science-level thinking for ya — this loon is on the Senate Energy Committee? With the jobless rate in Michigan, especially in the Detroit area at the catastrophic level, and with urban crime and a city that has even yet not recovered from the riots and burnings of the 60s, their Senator is fixated on Global Warming? Gotta love the snark of that post’s author, Henry Payne:

And there are sea monsters in Lake Michigan. I can feel them when I’m boating.

Last Friday at Science Daily new research results were announced that strongly indicate that it is the known “wobbles” in the Earth’s rotation that cause the large shifts in our planet’s climate, the periodic glaciation and melting that have been going on for over 2.5 million years.

Researchers have largely put to rest a long debate on the underlying mechanism that has caused periodic ice ages on Earth for the past 2.5 million years – they are ultimately linked to slight shifts in solar radiation caused by predictable changes in Earth’s rotation and axis.

In a publication to be released Friday in the journal Science, researchers from Oregon State University and other institutions conclude that the known wobbles in Earth’s rotation caused global ice levels to reach their peak about 26,000 years ago, stabilize for 7,000 years and then begin melting 19,000 years ago, eventually bringing to an end the last ice age.

The melting was first caused by more solar radiation, not changes in carbon dioxide levels or ocean temperatures, as some scientists have suggested in recent years.

“Solar radiation was the trigger that started the ice melting, that’s now pretty certain,” said Peter Clark, a professor of geosciences at OSU. “There were also changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and ocean circulation, but those happened later and amplified a process that had already begun.”

More evidence that rising levels of CO2 FOLLOW warming, not precede and cause it. But, here’s the sobering part:

Sometime around now, scientists say, the Earth should be changing from a long interglacial period that has lasted the past 10,000 years and shifting back towards conditions that will ultimately lead to another ice age – unless some other forces stop or slow it. But these are processes that literally move with glacial slowness, and due to greenhouse gas emissions the Earth has already warmed as much in about the past 200 years as it ordinarily might in several thousand years, Clark said.

“One of the biggest concerns right now is how the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will respond to global warming and contribute to sea level rise,” Clark said. “This study will help us better understand that process, and improve the validity of our models.”

The research was done in collaboration with scientists from the Geological Survey of Canada, University of Wisconsin, Stockholm University, Harvard University, the U.S. Geological Survey and University of Ulster. It was supported by the National Science Foundation and other agencies.

Sounds like a little Global Warming might be a good thing, no? Hard to grow wheat in Kansas if the state’s under a half-mile high slab of ice! Not that we will ever see that, but our great-great-great-great grand kids might — if they haven’t left this rock for exploration of the final frontier.

However, our new government is totally bought into Al Gore’s madness, and if Crap & Tax becomes law of the land all our taxes will go up, our energy costs will go sky high but not one itsy bitsy bit o’ Global Warming will be curtailed. Good ol’ Al Gore will get even richer though, if that make ya feel better!

Down under, the Australian Senate has rejected their Prime Minister backed climate change legislation. Would that we will see some leadership like that in our own Senate — I won’t be holding my breath on that one . . .

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