Mammoth farts kept planet warm

24 May, 2010 by

"He who smelt it, dealt it."

And by the way, “mammoth farts” means farts from mammoths, and not just enormous farts from anyone else, like bad-mannered neanderthals. From the You Couldn’t Make It Up Department:

SCIENTISTS believe gassy mammoths helped to fill the atmosphere with methane and keep the Earth warm more than 13 thousand years ago.

Experts estimate that, together with other large plant-eating mammals that are now extinct, they released about 9.6 million tonnes of the gas each year.

When the megafauna disappeared there was a dramatic fall in atmospheric methane which may have altered the climate, British scientists say.

Analysis of gases trapped in ice cores suggests that the loss of animal emissions accounted for a large amount of the decline.

Read it here.

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Climate change to increase weeds… no, wait…

18 May, 2010 by

Killer weeds killed off?

Way back in October 2008, ACM ran the following story:

Invasion of the killer weeds

“Scientists have warned that more government funding is needed to protect Australia against a climate-driven weed invasion.” (ACM, 17 October 2008, link)

But hang on, now it’s all change, because the Sydney Moonbat Herald reports that climate change will actually eradicate some weeds:

Climate change may have an upside in helping Australian scientists put the squeeze on some weed species.

A CSIRO report has found that hotter temperatures and reduced rainfall in South Australia could lead to changes in the type and number of weeds growing in areas across the state.

It said existing weed problems in northern districts may shift south and landholders may have to deal with species they haven’t encountered before.

But it also found that as the climate warms the geographic range of some weeds that prefer cooler conditions may be reduced.

“If we can prevent the replacement with other weeds we may be able to put the squeeze on some weeds, particularly the notoriously destructive weeds Bridal Creeper and Scotch Broom,” lead author Darren Kriticos said. (source)

More weeds, same weeds, fewer weeds, different weeds. Who cares? As long as we can write mind-numbing stories about “climate change” to keep our editors happy.

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Andy Pitman's laughable excuses "why the sceptics are winning"

25 January, 2010 by

Feels hard done by

They don’t, interestingly, include the obvious one: the “consensus” science is riddled with errors, fudged data and spin, is hugely politicised, and the IPCC is starting to resemble a bunch of losers who will be so discredited that they won’t be able to show their faces in polite society for decades. No, Prof Pitman (UNSW) chooses to avoid that one, clearly missing the irony of trying to make this point so soon after Climategate, Glaciergate and Hurricanegate, and all the other “-gates” yet to come.

So here they are, in all their gruesome glory (from the ABC… where else?):

  • “Sceptics are so well funded, and so well organised” – so the $70 billion or so thrown at alarmist scientists to try to prove AGW since the mid 1990s (which, by the way, they still haven’t managed to do) is just loose change, I guess? Are you admitting that the alarmists are a disorganised rabble?
  • “They have nothing else to do. They don’t have day jobs…” – [so ludicrous that no comment is required – Ed]
  • “…so they can put all their efforts into misinforming and miscommunicating climate science to the general public” – Sorry, but we can’t hold a candle to your celebrity warm-mongers like Al Gore, James Hansen, Tim Flannery, Robyn Williams etc etc (continued p 94). They’re the real misinformation experts here.

And then the best one of all [cue violins]:

  • “All of the efforts you do in an IPCC report is done out of hours, voluntarily, for no funding and no pay, whereas the sceptics are being funded to put out full-scale misinformation campaigns and are doing a damn good job, I think.”

Doesn’t it just make your heart bleed? I mean this guy must be on another planet. The climate alarmist movement must be one of the most well funded scientific bandwagon in the history of the freaking planet! And the media happily print anything they say, without question. Try getting a sceptical article printed anywhere in the mainstream media. Oh per-lease, as they say. And of course, in the spirit of full disclosure, the ABC points out that Prof Pitman is co-director of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales.

Andy Pitman’s home pages are here, by the way, with an email address in case any of ACM’s readers would like to send a donation, or a pair of socks or something.

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James Delingpole: The Al Gore Poetry Competition

11 January, 2010 by

The Winner:

In the bleak mid-winter
Monbiot made moans,
Everyone was freezing,
Thanks to Philip Jones.
Snow was falling, snow on snow,
Even on Al Gore.
Brown raised carbon taxes,
Making people poor.

What can I give Gore,
Poor as I am?
Lots of carbon credits?
Surely that’s a scam!
If I were a wise man
I would do my part.
But what the man deserves is
One great methane fart.

Read the rest here.

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RealClimate finalist for "Best Religious Blog" in Weblog Awards

6 January, 2010 by

Worthy nomination

The 2009 Weblogs didn’t actually get to that stage before they pulled the plug, but RC got the second highest number of nominations in the Best Religious Blog category. My friend over at Soylent Green had a lot to do with it, apparently, and writes (proudly):

Well, the votes are in for the 2009 Weblog Awards. And even though the creators cancelled this year’s contest, that’s not going to stop a-holes like us from finishing our Holy mission–especially when we’ve been hatching this plot for two months.

Therefore, we–being McGoo and I–have totaled the nominating votes and declare Real Climate a Best Religious Blog Weblog Award Finalist for 2009.

The top four vote recipients, in order, were:

  1. One Cosmos 253
  2. RealClimate 149
  3. Hare Krsna 33
  4. Wild Hunt. 29 (complete totals are available for vote denialists)

Reaction to the vote has been brisk. See what others have said…

“It validates everything I’ve been preaching since 2006. I’ve done a Christian [-based] training program; I have a Muslim training program and a Jewish training program coming up, also a Hindu program coming up. I trained 200 Christian ministers and lay leaders here in Nashville in a version of the slide show that is filled with scriptural references. It’s probably my favourite version, but I don’t use it very often because it can come off as proselytising.”—Al Gore

“It has it’s own High Priests and it’s own Holy Writ.” — Ian Plimer

“Bwuhahahahahahahahahahahahaha.” — Christopher Lord Monckton

“Real what?”—Michael Mann

“[Snip – this is a family blog – Ed].”—Gavin Schmidt

“Phil’s not here, Mann.”—Phil Jones

“I’m pleased the voters could see the forrest for the trees.”—Keith Briffa

Great stuff – read it here (obscenity alert!). Also check out the original post hatching the plan here.

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Must see video: "It's a Climategate Christmas"

10 December, 2009 by

From Minnesotans for Global Warming, the team that brought you “Hide the Decline” (see here), comes a medley of Christmas favourites:

Check out the M4GW site here. (h/t: I love CO2)

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Barking madness in UK: "GPs should offer climate change advice"

30 November, 2009 by

Bonkers: any psychiatrists around?

Bonkers: any psychiatrists around?

Away from the intrigue of the Liberal leadership contest, here’s a timely reminder that climate madness is alive and well all over the globe, and nowhere more so than in the UK:

Doctors should give patients advice on climate change, a leading body of medical experts has claimed.

The Climate and Health Council, a collaboration of worldwide health organisations including the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal Society of Medicine, believes there is a direct link between climate change and better health.

Their controversial plan would see GPs and nurses give out advice to their patients on how to lower their carbon footprint.

The Council believes that climate change “threatens to radically undermine the health of all peoples”.

It believes health professionals are ideally placed to promote change because “we have ethical responsibility…..as well as the capacity to influence people and our political representatives to take the necessary action”.

I can just imagine: “I’m sorry I can’t treat your chronic flatulence, but I suggest you purchase a boat-load of emissions permits instead.”

How about just letting medical professionals get on with their job – i.e. making sick people well again – instead of burdening them with pointless climate propaganda? That would be a novel idea.

Read it here, and see the Climate and Health Council website here.

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"Hide the decline"

25 November, 2009 by

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Marooned!

20 November, 2009 by

This is what that $50 billion of global warming research funding is spent on – photoshopping spoof images of climate sceptics (from the Hadley Files). Entitled “Marooned”:

Done on the Met Office supercomputer, I guess?

Done on the Met Office supercomputer, I guess? No wonder the projections are such crap…

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Hilarious: Rudd enlists Galileo's help

19 November, 2009 by


I know ten facts about climate change now, and they're still all wrong.

I know ten facts about climate change now, and they're still all wrong.

Except he gets it completely back to front! Kevin Rudd is, you know, quite frankly, stunned at the response of the Opposition to his wondrous ETS and just can’t believe that anyone could possibly have a bad word to say for it:

“I’m constantly stunned. It’s as if we’re back into the trial of Galileo or something and they’re simply arguing somehow that the science is fiction and that they alone in their own prejudiced universe occupy fact.

“I mean, we are back almost in a medieval court.”

What a classic own goal! If Rudd had any idea of the history of science (or in fact about anything at all), he would have realised that it was Galileo who was in the position of today’s climate sceptics, bravely proposing a scandalous sun-centred model of the solar system in the face of the religious dogma of the Catholic church (or in the present analogy, the High Church of Global Warming), which stood firmly by the biblical, faith-based, earth-centred model. And for this (ultimately correct) interpretation of the workings of the solar system, Galileo was sentenced by the Pope to house arrest for the remainder of his life. The Catholic church took until 1992, three hundred and fifty years after his death, to admit it was wrong, and a statue of him now stands in the Vatican. How’s that for rehabilitation?

So in order to attack the climate sceptics in the Opposition, Kevin Rudd enlists the help of probably the most famous scientific sceptic in history, who was eventually shown to have been right all along. I always knew our PM was no brain surgeon, but honestly…

Read it here.

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