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Indians Use Voice At Climate Summit

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Sunday, December 07, 2008 11:16:34 AM
   Native hunters made their presence known yesterday at the climate summit being helod in Poznan, Poland, expressing their worries of the changeing climate.
 

"We can't hunt because the ice is not frozen yet. Our hunters are falling through the ice, and lives are being lost," Erasmus told The Associated Press. This winter the normally dry area has been covered by thick, wet snow, further hampering hunting, he said.

Petroleum extraction from the Canadian tar sands is draining the underground water table and reducing the flow of the rivers northward, and the effects are felt hundreds of miles away, he said.

He is concerned that warmer winters will mean less luxurious fur on the muskrat and beaver that his people sell.

Nearly 40 years ago, he said, tribal elders noticed changes in the annual migrations of animals. The weather, which they could forecast three weeks in advance from animal behavior and the appearance of the sunsets, is now unpredictable.
 
   Changing climate patterns are felt over hundreds of centries rather than a few short decades. What these native hunters are experiencing is the effects of the end of the little ice age. The weather cycle is changing, and they will have to adapt their hunting to it.
   It is sad that things have become difficult for them, but they will need to change with the weather. Regardless of what they agree upon in Poland, humans simply cannot change the weather back to what they would like it to be. We are a long way from being able to change the way the weather works.
 
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Melting Glaciers Reveal Ancient Forest

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Friday, December 05, 2008 7:30:06 PM
   Just when you thought the melting Arctic was due to global warming and CO2 emissions, we get this. It seems there used to be a forest in northern Sweden that is currently being revealed by a melting glacier.
 

“If the area hadn’t been covered by a glacier all these thousands of years, these tree remnants would never have made it. The finds yield information indicating that the 20th century was probably the warmest century in 7,000 years. The fact that the climate is so unique during the last century means that we must question whether this could be 100 percent the result of natural mechanisms,” says Leif Kullman, professor of physical geography, who is directing the project.

Pines and birches grew on the site of the glacier during parts of or perhaps the entire period between 11,800 and 7,000 years ago. This is shown by carbon 14 dating of the remains of trees that have now been uncovered. During that period, the glacier did not continuously exist, and the climate was warmer than at any time afterward.
 
   Clearly, the Earth has been warmer and trees used to grow where there currently is a glacier. But you have to like they way they worded the article stating; "The finds yield information indicating that the 20th century was probably the warmest century in 7,000 years."
It should have been worded like this; "The finds indicate that the Earth did have warmer periods in the past which cannot be related to human induced global warming."
 
   Sounds good to me!
 
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Money, Money , And More Money

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Friday, December 05, 2008 7:07:17 PM
   So far this is all that has come out of the climate conference in Poland.
 
The U.N. climate change organization has said the world's poor countries will need $130 billion dollars a year by 2030 to help them adapt to global warming and curb their carbon emissions.

The U.N. says rich countries need to increase their payments over the next 20 years to six times the funds available now, which is about $21 billion.

 
 They sure aren't afraid to ask for money. Actually, there is some other news coming from Poland.
 
 Negotiators from 190 countries agreed a year ago to complete a new global warming treaty by the end of 2009 that would force governments to reduce carbon emissions.
 
That deadline now appears to be slipping away.

"It was too optimistic to begin with," said Eileen Claussen, the president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, whose organization closely monitors the U.S. Congress on climate issues.
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The Arctic Is Doomed

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Friday, December 05, 2008 6:53:39 PM
   This artilce from Spiegel Online is nothing more than an attempt to scare the general public back into reinforcing the push for global warming legislation that is waining because of economic issues. So the angle being used now is the "tipping point" arguement.
 
   Behind the complex language and impenetrable calculations upon which the study is based, however, is a frightening possibility: climate change in the Arctic could already have reached the point of no return. Climate researchers have long been warning of such "tipping points," and that crossing them could mean irreversible developments for eco-systems and humanity.
 
So is it happening or is it just a possibility?
 
   "In the case of Arctic Sea ice, we have already reached the point of no return," says the prominent American climate researcher James Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at NASA.
 
Well, there you go! All hope is lost! We are all doomed!
Come on...how could these scientists possibly say, for a fact, that the Arctic is going to melt away? They may predict it, but they certainly cannot prove it for a fact. (James Hansen is the most outspoken of all the American climate nutters) The nice thing for Mr. Hansen and other climate bozo's is they won't be held accountable for thier words when it doesn't turn out. Instead they will be praised for their research and scientific prowess.
 
   
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Greenhouse Gases Increase In 2007

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 7:08:53 PM
   The Energy Department released the "those bad ol' greenhouse gas numbers" for 2007 today, and it went up 1.4% after declining in 2006.

The EIA said that in 2007 the United States produced 8 billion tons (7.28 billion metric tons) of greenhouse gases, compared to 7.9 billion (7.18 billion metric tons) in 2006. The tonnage, presented in terms of "carbon dioxide equivalent" also includes methane, nitrous oxides and a number of lesser greenhouse gases, although carbon dioxide accounted for nearly 83 percent of the releases.

Despite a growing concern about the accumulation of heat-trapping pollution that scientists say is changing the world's climate, the flow of greenhouse gases continue to increase not only in the United States, but worldwide.
 
   But that is okay because the Western Governors Association has told President-Elect Obama what they believe needs to be done in his first 100 days of office, and cleaning up the bad ol' greenhouse gases is high on that list.
 
   Why is that everybody seems to think they have some kind of stake in Obama's Presidency? There are going to be a lot of disappointed people and "associations" when they don't get what they want. But hey, Over at the Daily Kos, they are starting to get confortable with all the centrists that Obama has picked for his cabinet after a few over there blew some gaskets.
   Funny thing is, if you had told those over at the Daily Kos or any of the other far-left groups six months ago who he would pick for his cabinet, I believe you would have been laughed right out of the room. Someone feels sorry for the Kos, though.
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