Nobel Laureate’s Wardrobe Challenged
As Czech prez suggests the warmalist emperor has no clothes. AFP:
Czech President Vaclav Klaus took aim at climate change campaigner Al Gore on Saturday in Davos in a frontal attack on the science of global warming.
“I don’t think that there is any global warming,” said the 67-year-old liberal, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the European Union. “I don’t see the statistical data for that.”
Referring to the former US vice president, who attended Davos this year, he added: “I’m very sorry that some people like Al Gore are not ready to listen to the competing theories. I do listen to them.
“Environmentalism and the global warming alarmism is challenging our freedom. Al Gore is an important person in this movement.”
Article goes on to explain that Klaus is a dangerous radical who also thinks the EU and the UN’s IPCC suck.
Well, it’s never too late to start panicking. Via Ace, NOAA predicts 1,000 years of unstoppable warmalism … I mean warming. Abstract avoids any snide references to the weather, Arctic avifauna sightings, etc.
Topics: warmalism
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:41 am Comments (6) on Sunday, February 1, 2009
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February 1st, 2009 at 11:08 am
If this is correct (which I highly doubt, based on the planet’s climate history) then it’s great news for our descendants.
Warm we can deal with. Cold kills.
February 1st, 2009 at 12:18 pm
FB,
We could, as a species, survive an ice age if we took the task on square. It would require a full-blown adaptation on nuclear power and geo-thermal tapping, the development of extensive bunker-like above ground habitats as well as below ground spaces.
large, open cities, above ground communities would be gone, to be replaced by smaller clannish or tribal pods of probably 10,000 or fewer people. Farming would have to covert to large indoor hydroponic facilities, taking advantage of the easy access to water through melted ice. There would need to be small-scale pharmacological development close to hand as well, not only for medicines, but for those vitamins needed to replace the lack of sunlight.
Manufacturing would also return to near cottage-industry levels, made locally, and trade/barter likely replacing money in the economy. You’d also have to take some serious enforcement of marriage barriers to keep inbreeding from damaging the population.
Roads and highways would be replaced by underground paths and tunnels, or covered above-ground facilities, with foot and rail likely replacing all vehicles except for small electric golf-cart like utility craft.
Anyway, those are some points to consider. With a new ice age, one of the big ones, civilization as we know it will disappear, and that maybe with 10 years or less. It depends on how quickly the ice builds up and travels as to how and how many survive.
For a good read on a future like that, where the ice age approaches and the “eco-warriors” have taken over power, I would suggest “Fallen Angels” by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. You can read it online at Baen Books’ website.
Respects,
February 1st, 2009 at 3:04 pm
One other point about living through an ice age. With the proper poser source, it’s easy to also develop oxygen and hydrogen by breaking down the ice. With a constant supply of oxygen you can easily improve and refresh the sir quality of a closed-habitat, and you can then use the hydrogen for fuel(s) where electricity would be impractical.
Respects,
February 1st, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Article goes on to explain that Klaus is a dangerous radical who also thinks the EU and the UN’s IPCC suck.
At last, I’m a radical.
February 1st, 2009 at 9:17 pm
AW1 Tim, the nuclear plants would have to be carefully placed due to the glaciers. Even underground plants would be a challenge due to the glacial propensity for digging ditches. We could do it but would have to ace the politicians out of the planning.
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:22 pm
MinkeH,
My thinking on the Nuke plants would be to make hundreds of them, maybe even thousands, of a standard pattern, about the size of the reactors the Navy uses on it’s submarines. By using a powerful but smaller design, you could go deep below ground and have a working power plant that wouldn’t need to be refueled for at least 20 years or so. Still problems to iron out, but much more doable than a large commercial facility.
If you keep to one or two designs, then you increase the safety factor and decrease expenses through mass production of components, and simplification of training through standard procedures on like types.
respects,