Dennis M Mitchell & David R. Legates:
Children playing on the beach often discover a fascinating biological behavioral pattern among hermit crabs. Place a dozen in a cardboard box, and in minutes the crabs exit their shells and try to occupy another.
This mild stress-induced behavior probably reflects their lifelong drive to continue growing by repeatedly commandeering larger shells.
Similarly, climate alarmists are scrambling to find new shelter from the stress coming from a public that increasingly realizes their doom-and-gloom predictions of climate catastrophe are based on shoddy data, faulty computer models and perhaps outright deception.
Despite a measured absence of warming over the last 16 years, they repeatedly cried “wolf.” Alarmists demanded that the world transform their energy and economic systems, slash fossil fuel use and accept lower living standards to reflect the politically manufactured science.
Even as growing evidence conflicted with their dogma, the money, fame and power were too good to surrender for mere ethical reasons.
Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson wailed her agency would need at least 240,000 new EPA employees (each making some $100,000 per year, plus benefits) that she said would be needed just to administer new carbon dioxide regulations — and control nearly everything Americans make, drive, ship and do!
The EPA currently employs some 20,000 people at an annual budget of over $8 billion. The new hires alone would cost taxpayers another $24 billion annually — plus hundreds of billions of dollars in economic pain, manufacturing shutdowns and new job losses that the EPA’s CO2 regulations would inflict.
Year after year, alarmists have changed their protective shells for more absurd answers regarding where the Earth has mysteriously stashed all the energy that greenhouse gases supposedly trapped.
For years, alarmists said ocean waters were storing the missing energy. But when the ARGO project demonstrated that the heat was not in the ocean, at least down two kilometers beneath the surface, one prominent alarmist responded, “We are puzzled at the results.”
When the data consistently conflict with their hypothesis, reputable scientists revise the hypothesis. Five-alarm climate scientists desperately seek new shells, and new excuses.
The “puzzling” facts triggered the predictable alarmist tactic of attacking the data and claiming the heat was hiding in the really deep ocean.
Ignoring the physics of the problem — how the asserted heat was transferred from atmospheric carbon dioxide, through the sea surface, and beyond the first mile of ocean waters, without being detected — they expect us to believe that fluid thermodynamics is akin to magic.
The Non-Governmental International Panel on Climate Change has released its 2013 report “Climate Change Reconsidered II.” The world finally has a chance to see the actual science — not the kind that’s hidden, massaged and filtered through alarmist shell games.
Unencumbered by political pressure and mega-lobbyists, this 1,018-page review by 50 serious and highly accomplished scientists has exposed the alarmists’ fraud.
These real scientists have also exposed as illusory the alarmists’ mystical “tropical hot spot.” This sacred cow turns out to be as fanciful as planetary warming hidden in the deepest ocean, or the infamous hockey stick of Michael Mann’s hidden data and secret computer codes.
According to the EPA report obtained by REUTERS:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/30/us-usa-fiscal-epa-idUSBRE98T12E20130930
The EPA said it would “classify 1,069 employees, out of 16,205, as essential,” which is about 6.6% of the agency’s workforce.
Can you imagine adding another quarter of a million non-essential folks to that?
What a waste!
The EPA should learn to recycle, reuse, re-purpose.
Just like we do.
AGW proponents are the modern version of the disgraced televangelists caught canoodling with purty young things who were not their wives. They lie bigger and bigger to tell us how they were trying to save us from our sinful ways, laughing all the way to the bank.
The science is clearly becoming unsettled – as least as far as liars and frauds like Mann and Gore and their ilk are concerned. AGW is a hoax more laughable than the Piltdown man and Carson’s DDT hysteria. Well…it would be laughable if it wasn’t destroying our economy with their stupidity.