Global Warming as Mass Neurosis

The Arctic ice cap may be thinning, but the extent of Antarctic sea ice has been expanding for years. At least as of February, last winter was the Northern Hemisphere's coldest in decades. In May, German climate modelers reported in the journal Nature that global warming is due for a decade-long vacation. But be not not-afraid, added the modelers: The inexorable march to apocalypse resumes in 2020.

This last item is, of course, a forecast, not an empirical observation. But it raises a useful question: If even slight global cooling remains evidence of global warming, what isn't evidence of global warming? What we have here is a nonfalsifiable hypothesis, logically indistinguishable from claims for the existence of God. This doesn't mean God doesn't exist, or that global warming isn't happening. It does mean it isn't science.


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Chinese Quake teaching Compassion ?

If the Sichuan earthquake happened in Japan or USA, there would have been many more survivors," he said with agitation. "Our rescue rate of less than 1 in 10 was very low."In China some matters are strictly for the government. Politics is for the Communist party-state. Ordinary folk may pursue private goals. Beijing trusts the people with their money, but not with their minds. But the Sichuan earthquake, throwing everyone naked into the air, momentarily bridged the divide.

more here.

More Noosa photos

1. Noosa Main beach on a busy day.
2. sunlight noosa Nat. park
3. Noosa nat park sea edge

Photos from "The Great Walk" - Sunshine Coast

0.maps of the walk . (red dot shows location)

1. Mapleton Falls
2. Gherulla creek
3. my setup at Ubajee Campsite
4. Gherulla Falls

5. Fallen tree

6. Gherulla creek

(click on a picture for a larger version)

At the beginning of this year, I went on a 2 day solo. walk in the hinterland. Finally have the photos developed, so here they are.

It's a very scenic walk, with nice campsites made by the Nat parks authorities.
I tested out my new "Luxe mini-peak" Pyramid tent, which weighs about 1700 kg with inner mesh tent and pegs, and cost much less than Macpac tents and other well-known brands.

uses a trekking pole in the center.. and is rather like the Black Diamond "mega mid" pyramid tent.

when you do multiple-day walks, every gram counts... so I look for ultra-light solutions.

There's a whole movement out there, called "ultra-light backpacking", with websites, gear...

Anyways, the jungle was very pretty - awesome trees . and all this quite close to awesome beaches - it's a good part of the world to live in.

http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/parks_and_forests/great_walks/sunshine_coast_hinterland/

Olivier Follmi Photographs

I saw Follmi's photographs a few years ago and was awed. He captures the grandeur and spirituality of the Himalayas. Is French, lives in Haute Savoie, has adopted Tibetan kids. Has lived in Zanskar, Tibet.... mountaineered in the Himalayas quite a fellow.

See his best photos on his website:

http://www.follmi.com/en/portfolios-follmi/portfolio.html

Flannery is a Fool on Global Warming

Well... this is political, but also connected with the outdoors. mmmm.
Andrew Bolt writes on global warming madness, and environmentalist Tim Flannery making a complete fool of himself.

Flannery lied People died !
Well ... they will loose some of their standard of living and jobs, anyway, if oz persists in this ecological masturbation which will have absolutely zero effect on GW (which has not occured since 1998). Given India + china = more than 2 billion people and oz = 20 million.


How Flannery gets away with such flummery has been a mystery to me, but I blame in part our extraordinary groupthink (see this report). For instance, while 31,000 scientists were happy this week to sign a petition in the United States denying there was convincing evidence that man's gases caused catastrophic global warming, I can't think of more than a dozen in Australia who'd dare do the same.

And I can think of even fewer journalists who'd back them if they did. That's why Flannery is still treated as a hero of the ABC and The Age, despite a string of predictions that should have made him a laughing stock, not 2007 Australian of the Year.
Here's a condensed list.

Three years ago he warned global warming could leave Sydney's dam's dry by 2007. They are two thirds full.

Perth would be so devastated by drought that it would be a "ghost city" in decades. In fact, the city has just recorded its wettest April on record.

The ice caps would melt so fast that the seas would lap the roofs of "an eight-storey building". In fact, the United Nations' influential IPCC, itself accused of alarmism, says at worst the seas will rise this century by 59cm.

Hurricanes would become more frequent. In fact, the long-term trend of hurricanes and cyclones is highly disputed, as is any link to warming.

The hype pushing the global warming scare is the most sustained assault on reason in my lifetime. While Flannery remains a prophet, the rational should tremble, even before he starts firing sulphur into our sky,


See also Jules' extensive cut and paste, with graphs, facts, quotes from environmentalists and scientists who are skeptical or believe man-made GW is a sham:

Global warming or Global Wanking

What Islamic Terrorists Want

See my political blog to find out, as quoted by a Swedish Muslim in Sweden, what islam terrorists really want. click here.