"Yikes! It looks like there isn’t much of one. Temp is going straight down and CO2 continuing straight up!"
"Data sources:
http://woodfortrees.org/plot/esrl-co2/from:2002
http://woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:2002/plot/rss/from:2002"
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About the site WoodForTrees, source of the above data: "A life-long green."
This website is a self-funded personal project by Paul Clark, a British software developer and practically-oriented environmentalist and conservationist. You can provide support through my Charity Tip Jar if you like.
Please note: I have no particular axe to grind in the "Global Warming Debate" one way or the other. Indeed, as a life-long Green I think a shift to a efficient and sustainable way of life is a Good Thing whether or not CO2 is a significant problem in and of itself.
My aim here is only to use what skills I have as a programmer to help others with greater domain knowledge to discover and debate what is happening. No angle, no hidden agenda.
After 30 years of messing around with (and being messed around by) computers and complex software, I would just say this:
Computers are great tools for helping you think; just never rely on them to do the thinking for you."
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Ed. note: CO2 is the basis for forcing the greatest cash transfer in history, ie from the US to the UN and allegedly thereafter to the poor for 'social justice' though all money given to the UN is 'no strings.' UN personnel freely spend our money on anything they feel like and there are no consequences. If we want to help the poor we should do it ourselves, not hand over the money to parasites at the UN who would not exist without US taxpayer money to begin with.
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3/22/12, "Mammoth new green climate fund wants United Nations-style diplomatic immunity, even though it’s not part of the UN," George Russell, Fox News
"The Green Climate Fund, which is supposed to help mobilize as much as $100 billion a year to lower global greenhouse gases, is seeking a broad blanket of U.N.-style immunity that would shield its operations from any kind of legal process, including civil and criminal prosecution, in the countries where it operates."...
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Just since 2010, $2.5 billion US taxpayer dollars have been given to foreign countries for "anti-global warming efforts" through one program, GCCI, Obama's 'Global Climate Change Initiative.'
3/26/12, "Obama Requests $770 Million to Fight Global Warming Overseas," CNS News, Matt Cover
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US taxpayer funds given to the UN are always 'no strings':
Do the "agencies have immunity "if they siphon (their U.S. grants) all off
- into Swiss banks? Is that accurate?
They will be totally immune, no matter what they do with the money?" "My understanding is, yes," Gambatesa replied." (item near end)...
"Federal prosecutors in New York City were forced to drop criminal and civil cases because the U.N. officials have immunity,"...
4/16/09, "Report: U.N. spent U.S. funds on shoddy projects," USA Today, Ken Dilanian
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11/14/10, ""Climate policy distributes the new world power"," Neue Zurcher Zeitung AG, Interview with German UN IPCC author Edenhofer
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2/26/12, "Rio+20 meets Agenda 21," WUWT, Willis Eschenbach
"Well, the rent-seekers, money-hungry NGOs, grifters, post-normal “scientists”, con-men, Eurotrash, and the usual camp followers are gearing up again for another monumental waste of money. This time, it’s for the upcoming extravagarbonza, the new Rio+20 Climate Carnival.
The meeting features the usual dangerous bafflegab, which conceals wholesale theft under layers of rhetoric."...
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1/3/12, "U.S. Taxpayers Cover Nearly Half the Cost of U.N.’s Global Warming Panel," CNS News, E. Harrington
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Even after hearing a 'green fund' was fraudulent, people still wanted to donate to it even in dire economic times. The reason: Green Guilt and Feeling Good:
7/30/2008, "Green Guilt," Capital Research Center, by Eric Heidenreich
"Green Guilt. People buying into the ‘green’ fad simply want to feel better about themselves, regardless of whether their actions actually do any good. People are buying carbon offsets to ‘balance’ out their impact on the environment. Once they send their money in, they feel better about driving SUVs. In the extreme case of environmental patron saint Al Gore, he buys credits in an effort to offset his 22,619 kWh of monthly electricity use (more than twice the energy a typical household uses in a year!). Of course, Al Gore is buying carbon credits from himself, but that is a whole other issue.
For more on St. Gore’s propagation of green-fueled guilt, and for a link to an excellent video exploring green guilt and the parting effect it has on people and their money, see Newsbusters’ recent post about the “Being Green” episode of Penn and Teller’s series Bulls#%t."
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Live Earth Concert organizer says "we created the problem" of excess CO2:
7/5/2007, "Big show, big impact? Live Earth hopes so," USA Today, E. Gundersen
"Net proceeds for Live Earth will go to the Gore-founded Alliance for Climate Protection, a coalition of non-profits that aims to educate the public and petition lawmakers and corporations for eco-friendly changes.
"We spent 150 years creating a problem, and one concert won't solve it," says executive producer Kevin Wall, who envisions Live Earth as "an accelerator" to mobilize those who are perhaps aware of global warming but unsure how to act. "This is a launch. It's about the simple things we all can do and about people saying to the government, 'No more excuses.' "
Wall, who was inspired to put on Live Earth after seeing Gore's Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, predicts viewers will feel empowered by the event's communal vibe and suggestions for living a "green" life that encourages recycling, saving energy and limiting emissions of carbon dioxide, which has been linked to global warming.
"This is music with a lot of scientists," Wall says. "You're going to be asked to join us, to go online, where you'll see carbon calculators, pledges you can make and seemingly small changes that take you from awareness to action. People will start to talk green, buy green and vote green.""...
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Al Gore has admitted pushing ethanol was wrong but says he did it to get elected:
11/22/10, "US corn ethanol "was not a good policy"-Gore," Reuters
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11/3/07, "Eco Firm Fined for Polluting," The Sun UK
- "A RECYCLING firm that fuelled the Live Earth concert
- was fined yesterday for polluting a river with
- poisonous chemicals.
- A trainee worker at Bio Tech Oils UK – which turns used cooking oil into diesel – poured four barrels of toxic glycerine down a drain.
- Hundreds of fish, frogs and birds died over a three-mile stretch of a river near Tredegar, South Wales.
The firm admitted emitting a noxious substance and was fined £19,000 by JPs in Abergavenny.
- The award-winning company, which
- supplied all the generator fuel for July’s Live Earth gig at Wembley, now faces going bust."
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Several million dollars in CO2 trades were illegally transacted in the EU system.2/3/2010, "UniCredit Urges Carbon-Account Checks After EU Scam (Update2)," Bloomberg
"UniCredit SpA’s Carbon Solutions Team advised clients to check their carbon accounts under the European Union’s cap-and-trade program as Germany said 250,000 permits were “improperly transferred” in a hackers’ attack.
National emission registries in EU countries including Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Poland temporarily disabled transactions in carbon-dioxide allowances last week after hackers sought to acquire confidential information from emitters in the EU trading system, according to their Web sites.
“There was a cyber-attack, what we call phishing, and it was a message inviting people to provide their passwords and some users did respond,” said Barbara Helfferich, a spokeswoman for the European Commission. “Illegal transactions may have taken place in Germany and the Czech Republic.”
In Germany, Europe’s biggest polluter, seven of about 2,000 users gave the hackers access to their accounts, the Federal Environment Agency said today in a statement. “Approximately 250,000 allowances, with a value of about 12 euros ($16.70) each, have been improperly transferred,” it said.
The country’s registry, which shut on Jan. 29 because of the attack, will probably resume normal operations tomorrow, the agency said.
No one at the Czech registry was available to comment. ...
The EU carbon-trading program, the world’s largest, includes about 11,000 factories and power plants. Companies that emit more than their cap must buy additional permits, while those that cut emissions more than required can sell their surplus.
National registries in the program hold records on emission certificates held by participants. They’re linked with the EU’s central registry, the Community Independent Transaction Log, and with the United Nations’ central registry, the International Transaction Log.
The secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change said it has been informed of nine “fraudulent transactions” involving theft of passwords belonging to participants in the EU program. Software for national registries hasn’t been compromised, the UNFCCC said today in a statement.
“Many national registries have already confirmed that they have taken appropriate security measures and that access to their system is now secured,” it said. “The UNFCCC secretariat is collaborating closely with the remaining national registries to ensure that access to their systems is secured.”
In the meantime, those registries have been disconnected from the International Transaction Log, it said. The ITL, which validates and records all transactions of emission units under the Kyoto Protocol, hasn’t been subject to interference and is “fully secure and operational,” the UNFCCC said."
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5/20/2009, "The Green Bubble," The New Republic, Nordhaus and Shellenberger
"Sometime after the release of An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, environmentalism crossed from political movement to cultural moment. Fortune 500 companies pledged to go carbon neutral. Seemingly every magazine in the country, including
Green had moved beyond politics....
"While utopianism has a bright side--it is a way of imagining a better world--it also has a dark side characterized by escapism and a disengagement from reality that marks all bubbles, green or financial.
Whether or not environmental leaders are able to recalibrate their politics for a post-bubble moment, all of us would do well to be suspicious of revulsion at modern life and our longing to transcend it. The low-grade dissatisfaction that almost all of us have felt is not a reason to forsake our modern lives but rather an inescapable consequence of the extraordinary choices, opportunities, and security that envelop us--and of the self-awareness and individualized identities that modernity itself makes possible. As such, the contradictions that drive our dissatisfaction and desire for transcendence are irresolvable. And this we should celebrate."
'Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger are the authors of Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists and founders of the Breakthrough Institute.'----------------------------------
Culture:
82% of Egyptian Muslims believe you should be stoned to death for adultery.
via Climate Depot
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