http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=3361

Lots of other good stuff here too including Solar Scientist Leif Svalgaard.

So it looks to me like AGW is not capable of being falsified, and so (per Karl Popper anyway) can’t be considered scientific. As if there were need for more reasons to be suspicious of a “consensus” maintained through the suppression of dissent.

Western Europe is ramping up its use of coal. Al Gore owns at least 3 huge gas guzzlers. Mere elitism, or evidence that they don’t really believe it?

I’m going to be voting for McCain. He at least is not fearful of the words nuclear energy. If we want to clean up our environment, that is the way to go. All the other ideas like solar and wind are good too. Let’s get something done. I don’t see that the democrats and Obama have any ideas here, other than to say ‘no’ to everything.

But it’s worse than that. I am fully convinced that one reason that Global Warming is so popular is that it forms a basis for outfits such as insurance companies to request a government bail-out. After all, if hurricanes cause billions of dollars in losses to them and the cause is NOT an “Act of God” but is accepted to be due to “all of us”, well, who ya’ gonna call? Or blame? The bail-outs of the bad housing loans is a precedent. Next, I could see farmers asking for Global Warming bail-outs, and retailers, and so on. It just never stops. And they intend to see that it never does.

Those “token measures” will amount to one of the biggest wealth transfers in the history of humanity. And these fines we will be compelled to pay will go to one of the most corrupt institutions in the modern world. That money will neither arrest man made global warming nor do anything constructive for poorer nations, except make the middlemen richer.

And these are the very same people who insist that the Global Warming climate models are accurate 50 or 100 years out.

Navytech: We have been observing the Sun scientifically for over 100 years and in a less rigorous manner for some thousands of years before that. And the latest solar observations show that the currents
on the Sun that predict future sunspot activity are at the LOWEST LEVEL ever recorded. By 2020 we will be at a solar minimum that could well be below anything ever seen before. The Sun is throttling back. But never fear, that is one reason why they are now calling it Climate Change rather than Global Warming. So the immense bureacracy they want to create will be able to cover all the options.

The worrisome thing is, though, that the default position is now one to accept Global Warming to some degree. Even the people who think it is all just a big scam seem to have accepted that we will have to undertake at least some token measures.

It’s like someone said back in the 80′s. If the Democrats established a position that required the US Capitol to be burned down, the Republicans would counter-propose that the task be done in a series of small fires rather than one big one.

LOL. Like our “Progressives” will take that for an answer. They’re more like this:

Talk? I don’t expect you to talk Mr. Bond. I expect you to die.