Nobel Prize Loser

Amy sent this one.

There recently was a death of a 98 year old lady named Irena.

During WWII, Iliana, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist.

She had an ulterior motive...

She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German).

Iliana smuggled infants out in the bottom of her tool box she carried, and she carried in the back of her truck a Burlap sack, (for larger kids).

She also had a dog in the back, that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in, and out of the ghetto.

The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.

During her time and course of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.

She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, and arms, and beat her severely.

Iliana kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out, and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard.

After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it, and reunited the family.

Most of course had been gassed.

Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes, or adopted.

Last year Iliana was up for the Nobel Peace Prize....

She LOST.

Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.

http://irenasendler.org/

And, before you ask, Snopes verified it.

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Researcher: Prepare for 'Little Ice Age' (will only last 80 years!)

The recent lack of solar activity could translate into a 'little ice age' within the next ten years, according to Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics at UNAM.

An expert... predicted that in about ten years the Earth will enter a "little ice age" which will last from 60 to 80 years and may be caused by the decrease in solar activity. Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the UNAM [who] teaches at the Centre for Applied Sciences and Technological Development...

Velasco Herrera described as erroneous predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), pursuant to which the planet is experiencing a gradual increase in temperature, the so-called global warming. The models and forecasts of the IPCC "[are] incorrect because only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity..."

...The phenomenon of climate change, he added, should include other kinds of factors, both internal, such as volcanoes [,] human activity, and external, such as solar activity... "In this century glaciers are growing", as seen in the Andes, Perito Moreno, Logan, the highest mountain in Canada, and with Franz-Josef Glacier, New Zealand, said Velasco Herrera... [a little Ice Age] could arrive in approximately two years... satellite data indicate[s] that this period of global cooling could even have already begun, since 2005.

Lack of solar activity suggests the possibility of a "Maunder Minimum", which presages a massive cooling event.

Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.


Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle.

This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe...

This aligns with June's pronouncement by the Australian Astronomical Society warning of global cooling due to diminished solar activity.


Canadian Climatologist Dr. Timothy Ball warns:

If we are facing [a crisis] at all, I think it is that we are preparing for warming when it is looking like we are cooling. We are preparing for the wrong thing.

And in March, NPR reported that independent studies of ocean temperatures point to one stunning conclusion:

...3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years.... Josh Willis at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the oceans are what really matter when it comes to global warming... "There has been a very slight cooling, but not anything really significant," Willis says. So the buildup of heat on Earth may be on a brief hiatus... Or it's possible that scientists need to correct for some other feature of the planet they don't know about... But what this does is highlight some of the issues and send people back to the drawing board."

So much for Al Gore's vaunted "consensus" of "settled science."

Hat tip: Marc Morano.

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Troublesome Arctic sea ice defies alarmists, increases from '07

Believers in anthropogenic global warming (AGW) have some 'splaining to do.

Year-over-year the Arctic sea ice extent increased by approximately 30%.

RandomEngineer adds the color commentary: "The fact that 2008’s extent isn’t significantly BELOW the 2007 number because of the aforementioned claimed problem of lacking multi-year ice is simply remarkable. So much for the predictions of a worse year..."

"...The AGW alarmist’s 2008 predictions weren’t merely just wrong, they were in a class of abysmal prognostication skill that ranks up there with psychics..."

"...Witch doctors with chicken guts or orangutans with darts could have fared better..."

"...Oh, and it wasn’t the skeptics claiming things about wind and current. They got that from this outfit called NASA. You may have heard of them..."

Hat tips: Watts up with that and Robert Steely. Graphs: AMSR-E Sea Ice Extent: University of Alaska Fairbanks; Comparison graphs: Daily Arctic Sea Ice Maps (University of Illinois Atmospheric Sciences). Linked by: American Thinker and Say Anything. Thanks!

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Gore's 100-foot boat pushes Earth over the tipping point

Does Al Gore really buy into his global warming alarmism? At Pajamas Media, Steve Gill helps answer the question:

...he jets about in private planes that consume massive amounts of energy to spread his message of “conservation.”


...he travels in fleets of limos and SUVs to deliver speeches about the dire consequences of ignoring “man-made global warming” — and leaves the cars running throughout his entire speech in order to ensure that they will be nice and cool when he exits the building...

His supposedly “green” mansion consumes electricity that dwarfs the consumption of the typical family home.

...Gore may now be extending his excessive consumption to the water as well. In an amazing display of conspicuous consumption, even for Al Gore, his new 100-foot houseboat that docks at the Hurricane Marina in Smithville, Tennessee is creating a critical buzz among many of his former congressional constituents. Dubbed “Bio-Solar One,” which may reflect some latent Air Force One envy, Gore has proudly strutted the small-town dock claiming that his monstrous houseboat is environmentally friendly. (Only Al Gore would name his boat B.S. One and not get the joke. Or perhaps the joke is on us...

Supposedly the boat is powered by biodiesel and solar panels. The boat's builder, though, says he has “no clue” about where Gore could get biodiesel at the lake.

When I was in college, I spent my summer piloting a 48-foot Stardust Cruiser party boat around for VIPs. I burned through two gallons of fuel every 15 minutes on a good day.

Webutante:

It uses tons of fuel, but not to worry, it's tons of bio-diesel fuel. (Where do you suppose it stops for 500 gallons of bio-refueling --@ $4/gal=$2,000-- on the lake?) Oh, and as a backup, it uses solar power. Evidently, there are jet skis included, surely powered with solar panels that make everything okay.

Check out the lifelines.

If I didn't know better, I'd think these cords were supplying electricity to Moby Gore.

But after listening to the Goracle, I'm guessing his vessel is just mainlining Crisco.

Hat tips: Bear Creek Ledger, Michelle Malkin, Steve Gill (at Pajamas Media as well) and Nashville is Talking.

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The staunch and unshakable positions of the American left

There is a country that is currently waging a war for oil.

And where stand the anti-war Democrats? ANSWER? Code Pink? Democracy Now? Peace Action? Stop the War Coalition? Indymedia? NoWar?

Did you hear those crickets?

There is a country utterly destroying the environment, responsible for 16 of the world's 20 most polluted cities and which has admitted nearly a half million deaths a year from smog alone.

Where are the environmentally conscious, anti-drilling Democrats concerned with global warming? The National Resources Defense Council? The Sierra Club? The Green Cross? Conservation International? Earth First? Earthjustice? Earthwatch?

I'm pretty sure those soft rustling sounds were some bindles of tumbleweed rolling through town.

If you needed cold, hard proof that today's hard left has pegged the needle on hypocrisy, well, I think you have it.*

*Note that conservatives never have to resort to sex scandals, a practice in which the opposition revels (consider Newt Gingrich, Larry Craig and Bob Packwood).

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Could Al Gore be any more full of crap?

Yesterday Al Gore thanked bloggers for promoting his global warming climate change agenda.

He also echoed Congressional Democrats' assertions that increasing energy supplies through drilling won't help.

Recent Republican calls to battle rising oil prices with more drilling is “absurd” and a bit like the old hangover cure known as the “hair of the dog,” or having another drink, Gore said.

Absurd? I'd say equating our transportation and energy systems, which today rely almost exclusively on fossil fuels, with a hangover qualifies as not just absurd, but borderline insanity.

Gore said he is trying to enlist 10 million grassroots environmental activists and asked the online organizers for help in doing it. He advocated moving all energy production to renewable sources, such as wind, solar and geothermal, within 10 years.

Meanwhile Gore's monstrous fleet of air-conditioned SUVs and limosines runs on premium unleaded, but not on wind, solar or geothermal.

The accompanying graphs ("Global Cooling (PDF))" were produced by The Herald-Sun of Australia.

A new paper published by the Astronomical Society of Australia has a warning to global warming believers not immediately obvious from the summary:

Based on our claim that changes in the Sun’s equatorial rotation rate are synchronized with changes in the Sun’s orbital motion about the barycentre, we propose that the mean period for the Sun’s meridional flow is set by a Synodic resonance between the flow period (~22.3 yr), the overall 178.7-yr repetition period for the solar orbital motion, and the 19.86-yr synodic period of Jupiter and Saturn.

Or as one of the authors, Ian Wilson, kindly explained to me:

It supports the contention that the level of activity on the Sun will significantly diminish sometime in the next decade and remain low for about 20 - 30 years. On each occasion that the Sun has done this in the past the World’s mean temperature has dropped by ~ 1 - 2 C. 

Oh. Global cooling coming, then. Obvious, really.

As if Gore needed any more support for his intractable position, The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, just reversed its position on climate change.

In the face of all of this, I simply ask: could Al Gore be any more full of crap?


Perhaps his limo drivers know for sure.

Update: Al Gore was a dolt as a student, too.

Linked by: LawHawk and Tom Nelson. Thanks! Hat tip: Catmman

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The word 'hypocrite' requires only four letters: G. O. R. E.

In a major announcement yesterday, Al Gore challenged Americans to switch from "carbon-intensive fuels to renewable energy" by 2018. Gore called for a multi-trillion dollar upgrade to the electric grid paid for, in part, by a colossal taxpayer ripoff in the form of a "carbon tax."

A film crew from Americans for Prosperty happened to be on the scene when Gore and his family arrived.









Oh. And more bad news for the global warming climate change scam artist formerly known as the vice president.

The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, just reversed its position on climate change.

Hat tips: Michelle Malkin, Gateway Pundit and Larwyn. Linked by: Denny and LawHawk. Thanks!.

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