Climate Conversation Group

The Economist displays a lack of perspective in much of its commentary, so here’s a quick glance at all 4½ billion years of Earth’s history of temperature and the atmospheric trace gas carbon dioxide. Temperature and CO2 levels are now very low, and they’re not linked. Lesson 1: Current modest increases won’t hurt us. Lesson 2: The temperature isn’t controlled by CO2. Is that simple enough? Click for larger version.

First sins of emission, now earth-moving

Here’s an amazing story from the Economist of 26 May. Why is it amazing? Three reasons. It casually and thoughtlessly swallows the IPCC global warming myth. Then it becomes an unquestioning advocate for that fatally tarnished, scientifically indefensible, “moral” crusade. Finally, for an extra spiciness I have never seen, it conflates our invisible sins of emission with the newborn sin of (may God protect us) earth-moving, to present a hideous picture of our terrestrial depravity.

Earth-moving? Yes, that’s right. Terrible, isn’t it? Of all the wicked things we do! Read more… »