29 February 2008
Press Release: SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0802/S00344.htm
Two cheers for Al Gore on his about-face on man-made Global Warming,
says SOLO Principal, Lindsay Perigo.
"Gore's renunciation of a cause whose Number One cheerleader he has been
for so long is a triumph of the scientific spirit. Confronted by
mounting evidence that the sceptics were right and he was wrong,
Gore has chosen to go with the evidence, and that is admirable."
Up to a point.
Gore acknowledged Thursday that recent cooling trends as manifest in
China's coldest winter in 100 years, Baghdad's first snow ever, North
America's greatest snow cover in 50 years, record levels of Antarctic
sea ice and record cold in a number of countries in both hemispheres
appear set to continue.
He cited the fact that all major global temperature tracking agencies
(Hadley, NASA, GISS, UAH, RSS) have released data showing that over the
past year, global temperatures have dropped dramatically, from between
0.65C and 0.75C, enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over
the past 100 years.
All in one year, and the single fastest temperature change ever
recorded, either up or down.
Gore quoted Kenneth Tapping, of Canada's National Research Council, who
oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun and is convinced the
earth is destined for a long period of severely cold weather if solar
activity does not pick up soon: "The last time the sun was this
inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five
centuries and ended in 1850."
But here's the rub: In addition to an end to the Kyoto Treaty, Gore is
now calling for a trebling of CO2 emissions by 2015, tax penalties for
weak carbon footprints, the mandatory use of coal and the installation
of giant heaters above the earth to stop polar bears freezing to death
and the oceans turning solid.
"This is the reason for two cheers instead of three," says Perigo. "From
warmist he has morphed into freezist. He still demands measures that
would kill industrial civilization while having zero impact on climate
change. What he needs fully to absorb from his epiphany is that
temperature is driven by the sun's activity, not man's ... and the free
exercise of man's resourcefulness, not hysteria-driven,
freedom-destroying laws, should be relied upon to ameliorate any
inconvenience caused by warming or cooling.
"The truth is actually convenient, for Gore and all of us. It means we
can get on with enjoying our lives and our freedom untroubled by the
apocalyptic naggings of warmists, freezists and all other party-pooping
hysterics," Perigo concludes.
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"In scientific circles, C02 is referred to as a `trace gas' that, for
hundreds of thousands of years, has remained at or below five
ten-thousandths of the atmosphere by volume. Even among the so-called
`greenhouse gases' (GHG), C02 accounts for less than 4%, with water
vapour being by far the most significant GHG. C02 is clearly a
miniscule component of the massive mechanisms that create climate and
cause climate change."
Dr. Timothy Ball, Chairman of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project
(NRSP.com), Former Professor Of Climatology, University of Winnipeg
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:33:01 +1100, "BN00Z" <BN...@dooodo.com.au>
wrote:
You're right about that, evidence from the time stamps of his posts
indicate that he spends a minimum of 8 hours a day at this activity,
sometimes a lot more. At first I thought he was just an annoying
troll, but his dedication to his cause makes me suspect that some form
of mental illness may be on display here.
Someone who merely wanted to be a pain would have grown tired of it by
now and find a method of being a nuisance which is more economical at
consuming his own time.
He's not going to stop doing it of his own accord no matter how many
times you tell him to STFU, like many people with obsessive-compulsive
mental disorders he thinks what is is doing is important, good and
useful.
Your best bet would be to read Usenet via a newsreader program with a
killfile function, or if you are reading Usenet via Google Groups
install the Greasemonkey Google Groups filter so you can block Bozo
and the threads he posts to.
http://www.penney.org/ggkiller.html
http://www.penney.org/google-groups-troll-killer-14-released.html
http://www.penney.org/google-groups-killfile-update.html
Hope this helps, and please pass on advice about killfiles to anyone
else you see following up to his posts.
Travis
www.travismorien.com
"Travis Morien" <travis...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:f93c3b10-a044-4118...@s37g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
You've been corrected repeatedly that this is false.
> All in one year, and the single fastest temperature change ever
> recorded, either up or down.
>
You are lying.
> Gore quoted Kenneth Tapping, of Canada's National Research Council, who
> oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun and is convinced the
> earth is destined for a long period of severely cold weather if solar
> activity does not pick up soon: "The last time the sun was this
> inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five
> centuries and ended in 1850."
Here's a Tapping quote:
"Thanks for the message. The stuff on the [IBD] web came from a casual
chat with someone who managed to misunderstand what I said and then
put the result on the web, which is probably a big caution for me
regarding the future.
It is true that the beginning of the next solar cycle is late, but
not so late that we are getting worried, merely curious.
It is the opinion of scientists, including me, that global warming
is a major issue, and that it might be too late to do anything about
it already. If there is a cooling due to the solar activity cycle
laying off for a bit, then the a period of solar cooling could be a
much-needed respite giving us more time to attack the problem of
greenhouse gases, with the caveat that if we do not, things will be
far worse when things turn on again after a few decades. However, once
again it is early days and we cannot at the moment conclude there is
another minimum started."
So once again, Bonzo misrepresents, distorts, and lies.
Take a look at Andrew Langerr's posting profile shown below. He wasn't so
much obscessed as employed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute to post
here.
Bonzo may very well have a similar financial stimulus to also post his non
stop stream of KKKonservative lies here.
Andrew Langer (Langrrr) - Associate Director of Development CEI wrote:
"Yes, I am required to sift through mounts of it on sci.environment
and talk.environment." - Andrew Langer - Sci Environment - June 10, 2000
What were you "required" to do again Langer?
Daily Posting profile for Langrrr Associate Director of Development
CEI. Mon-Fri March 14, 2000 to March 27, 2000
Average
Hour Time(min) Time Plot
1a 0.0 < 8 hours in bed
2a 0.0
3a 0.0
4a 0.0
5a 0.0
6a 0.0
7a 0.0
8a 0.0
9a 10.5 ***************** < Work Day Begins
10a 12.4 *********************
11a 10.3 *****************
12p 8.7 *************** < Lunch
1p 13.8 ***********************
2p 13.5 ***********************
3p 20.2 **********************************
4p 21.8 ************************************
5p 12.3 ********************* < Work Day ends
6p 5.6 ********* < Travel Home
7p 0.0 < Dinner
8p 0.2 . < Posting after work
9p 7.7 *************
10p 6.3 **********
11p 3.4 ******
12a 3.7 ******
Average time per day spent posting during work hours
114.8 min 24% of the work day
Average time per day spent posting during non work hours
35.5 min 3% of non working
LOL So you think he may one of those dirty Exxon fellows?
You forgot to mention that he is absolutely and totally enraptured, with
the music of Richard Wagner!
Highly unlikely. Bozo has a history of compulsive trolling which
predates his interest in global warming denialism.
One newsgroup he used to spam a lot in his pre-global warming days was
aus.invest, where he would start and do his best to maintain off topic
threads on religion vs. atheism and post endlessly about how clever he
is at market timing and chart reading. He's since admitted he's never
had the money to invest in the market, but if he had he would be a
rich man now because of his elite stock market skills.
Putting all this together and assuming that he wasn't lying about the
being broke part, and taking into account the huge numbers of hours he
spends at his spamming, I'd say that the simplest and most likely
explanation is that he is unemployed due to some form of mental
illness and spamming usenet is his whole life.
Besides which, he's not convincing enough to be a pro. A proper paid
shill would try to maintain some kind of illusion that he's a serious
contributor engaging in useful debate. Bozo just spews spam for 8 to
10 hours a day, very little of which gets read.
You'd be on firmer ground if you wanted to claim that Bozo works for a
company who make spam filters or moderated forums which are
alternative to Usenet.
Travis
www.travismorien.com
Nah, my only mental illness is an unhealthy obsession with the music of
Richard Wagner!
But, then again, I absolutely, positively hate greenie, leftie,
agenda-driven socialist, AGW hysterics trying to force their socialist
garbage down our throats, and trying to tell the rest of us what they
think is best for us!
>> Take a look at Andrew Langerr's posting profile shown below. He
>> wasn't so
>> much obscessed as employed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute to
>> post
>> here.
>> Bonzo may very well have a similar financial stimulus to also post
>> his non
>> stop stream of KKKonservative lies here.
> Highly unlikely. Bozo has a history of compulsive trolling which
> predates his interest in global warming denialism.
> One newsgroup he used to spam a lot in his pre-global warming days was
> aus.invest, where he would start and do his best to maintain off topic
> threads on religion vs. atheism and post endlessly about how clever he
> is at market timing and chart reading. He's since admitted he's never
> had the money to invest in the market, but if he had he would be a
> rich man now because of his elite stock market skills.
Judging by current stockmarket conditions, it looks like I might will be
piling in some time this year!
At the moment, I'm waiting for the bear market to run its course and the
final capitulation to occur!
Finance stocks are currently looking very cheap with low P/E's and
chunky dividend yields.
HMMMMM ... quite tempting ...
I might just put my toe in the water ... but, then again, there is still
the China card ... post Olympics maybe ...
Je ne sais pas!
BTW what happened to the poster who was thinking of buying up ABS stock
a few months ago?
Are you there matey?
How'd you go?
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"The question scientists should now be asking is not how much it will
warm over the next 50 to 100 years, but why has it warmed so little
during the major carbon dioxide buildup?" Patrick J. Michaels,
Environmental Scientist , University of Virginia