The Red Planets

Well, I am going to interupt the section, A Consensus Eroding o bring up this very important point. Since 1970, the temperature on Mars has risen 0.7 degrees Celcius, the exact same rise that we have seen on our own planet since the exact same time.

In fact, the London Times Online was reported as saying

Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period.

Since there is no known life on Mars it suggests rapid changes in planetary climates could be natural phenomena.

know, of course they try to rationalize it away by blaming the weather there, but the fact remains, the Red Planet is heating up the same way that the Earth is. And it doesn't have much of an atmosphere to speak of.

Infact, according to EnterpriseMission.com, the following has been documented

Sun: More activity since 1940 than in previous 1150 years, combined

Mercury: Unexpected polar ice discovered, along with a surprisingly strong intrinsic magnetic field … for a supposedly “dead” planet

Venus: 2500% increase in auroral brightness, and substantive global atmospheric changes in less than 30 years

Earth: Substantial and obvious world-wide weather and geophysical changes

Mars: “Global Warming,” huge storms, disappearance of polar icecaps

Jupiter: Over 200% increase in brightness of surrounding plasma clouds

Saturn: Major decrease in equatorial jet stream velocities in only ~20 years, accompanied by surprising surge of X-rays from equator

Uranus: “Really big, big changes” in brightness, increased global cloud activity

Neptune: 40% increase in atmospheric brightness

Pluto: 300% increase in atmospheric pressure, even as Pluto recedes farther from the Sun

Interesting how these facts, documented by NASA officials, has gone unnoticed by the Church of Global Warming and their Goracle. Only us Heretics have had the temerity to mention them so far.

Keeping the Heresy

A Near Fatal Moment

Well, my friends, today could have been a really bad day. Senator Inhofe, the Republlican from Oklahoma ho I have to call the Senate's Head Heretic, was on C-130 Hercules Military Cargo Plane going from Baghdad to Amman when three RPG's were fired at their plane.

For those of you who do not know about Inhofe, he is the man responsible for tying Al Gore into philosophical knots during the recent Climate Change Panel before the Senate.

May the lord protect our good friend Inhofe, as he continues to try and expose the Goraclists at every turn.

A Consensus Eroding (Part 2)

I remember sitting through the cannon of the Church of Global Warming in my Religion classes in high school, and coming across a point that I had already heard many times. They blamed Kilamanjaro’s melting Ice Cap on Global Warming. However, as I sat, looking at the pictures that they showed, I noticed something odd. At the base of the mountain, the first photo showed jungle surrounding it. Lush, tropical, wet, Jungle. Then, when they showed the second, more recent image, much of that Jungle had disappeared, replaced with stumps, buildings, and savannah. I though o myself, hmmm, that is odd, could it be that the dryer air is sapping the Ice?

When they showed the melting Ice, I realized that not only was it possible, but it was likely. When glaciers melt, they get smaller in all directions. However, the Ice images show tall pillars of Ice left behind in the center of the glaciers. The problem with this being that the height shrinks along with the circumference when Ice melts due to temperature. However, when the decrease is caused by dry air, it takes from the sides before it takes from the top, and that is what the images show you.

Recently, Climatologist John Daly was quoted as saying,

“The only problem with that knee-jerk explanation is that there has been no measurable atmospheric warming in the region of Kilimanjaro. Satellites have been measuring temperature since 1979 in the free troposphere between 1,000 and 8,000 meters altitude, and they show no tropospheric warming in that area. None.”

In fact, Betsy Martin of the journal Nature, was quoted as saying that

“Without the forests’ humidity,” Mason reports, “previously moisture-laden winds blew dry. No longer replenished with water, the ice is evaporating in the strong equatorial sunshine.”

Extrapolating on that, John Daly was quoted as saying

“Kilimanjaro is above most of the weather and is thus exposed to the equatorial sun, a sun that has been hotter during the twentieth century than at any time since the medieval period. That would be a sufficient explanation in itself for the depletion of the ice cap.”

So, that is one more blow to the “Concensus” of Global Warming. More to come tomorrow.

Keeping the Heresy

A Concensus Eroding

In the cannon of the Church of Global Warming, Al Gore made some very bold claims. One of them was a claim that no honorable scientist disagrees with Global Warming. Well, to quote Glen Beck on this subject, "Warning: You are about to meet people who are not really real!"

In Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, he quoted history professor Naomi Oreskes, who had done a survey of scientific papers from 1993 - 2004, and had found no disagreement with Anthropomorphic Global Warming.

Well, that has changed. According to the DailyTech, medical researcher Dr. Klaus-Martin Schulte has done an examination of papers ranging from 2004-February of 2007, and submitted the results to the journal Energy and Environment, with results that frankly, do not surprise me.

Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit endorsement of the consensus. If one considers "implicit" endorsement (accepting the consensus without explicit statement), the figure rises to 45%. However, while only 32 papers (6%) reject the consensus outright, the largest category (48%) are neutral papers, refusing to either accept or reject the hypothesis. This is no "consensus."

48% neither accept nor reject the consensus. That is startling, and shoves the claim right down the Prior's throat. However, it gets even better.

The figures are even more shocking when one remembers the watered-down definition of consensus here. Not only does it not require supporting that man is the "primary" cause of warming, but it doesn't require any belief or support for "catastrophic" global warming. In fact of all papers published in this period (2004 to February 2007), only a single one makes any reference to climate change leading to catastrophic results.

Only ONE claimed that there would be any kind of catastrophic climate change. Guess that guy is probably an Arch Prior in the Church of Global Warming.

My father sent me an e-mail the other day that I must say really cracked me, mostly because of how accurate it was. It contained a joke that goes as follows,

A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost.
She lowers her altitude
and spots a man fishing from a boat below.

She shouts to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I
promised a friend I would
meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."

The man consults his portable GPS and replies,
"You're in a hot air balloon,
approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of
2346 feet above sea level.
You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude
and 100 degrees, 49.09
minutes west longitude.

She rolls her eyes and says, "You must be a
Republican!"

"I am," replies the man. "How did you know?"

"Well," answers the balloonist, "everything you tell
me is technically
correct, but I have no idea what to do with your
information, and I'm still
lost. Frankly, you're not much help to me."

The man smiles and responds, "You must be a
Democrat."

"I am," replies the balloonist. "How did you
know?"

"Well," says the man, "You don't know where you are
or where you're going.
You've risen to where you are, due to a large
quantity of hot air. You made
a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now
you expect me to solve
your problem. You're in exactly the same position
you were in before we met,

but, somehow, now it's my fault."

I would like to apologise to all the women who might be reading this and do not understand the joke. I will not be explaining it, as I feel that it needs no explanation. If you don't get it, you don't pay enough attention to politics.

Introduction of a Heretic

Heretic is an odd name to assume, especially with my status as a confirmed Roman Catholic, but when it comes to the Church of Global Warming, there can be no better label to assume. Who knows, perhaps I will even be able to assume a ranking among the top six most hated by the church.

Yeah Right.

Ranking among the likes of Michael Crichton, Bjørn Lomborg, and Rush Limbaugh would be an unparalleled honor for me.

Now, on to the matter of heresy. This blog is not going to focus purely on Global Warming. This is going to include a look at the Human Rights abuses in China, the Chinese Military Buildup, Problems in Islam, the tactics being used by the Islamofascists, the war in Iraq, the Israel/Palestinian conflict, Hamas' control over the West Bank, North Korea, goings on in my own backyard, and much more.

However, this blog is going to be primarily my soapbox when it comes to the subject of climate change.

I am not a hero, not a leader, I am a Heretic.