Global Warming Challenge 2

The saviors of the environment want 50% reductions in CO2. I challenge anyone to do this. Cut your electrical use by 50-80%, cut your fuel consumption by 50-80%, cut the energy into products you use by 50-80%. You can handle the first two by personally doing it. Thermostat settings just to prevent your house from freezing (no AC) should allow you to keep food cold and cook. You can do without electrical lighting most of the time. If not, take your chances on food poisoning. It is darned easy to cut fuel consumption. Just don't drive. Cuts in product carbon footprint are harder. You just may have to give up getting stuff until you can be assured of its low-carbon value.

Think it's silly? The saviors of the planet are always demanding someone else do it. Don't see any of them trying that life-style themselves.

Global Warming Challenge 1

If global warming is "settled science" why are there no predictions, save AlGore's, for near-term effects. You can get all kinds of predictions for 2050 and 2100, but none for 2010. Ballistics is "settled" science. Propel an object weighing X grams with Y force at Z angle and you can predict very accurately the trajectory of that object. For us expert high school physics students it was always done in a vacuum to eliminate the complications of air resistance, wind speed and the like. For the settled science of AGW predictions are always made so far in the future that no one will remember the prediction.

AlGore is the only one who has made a short term prediction. He has predicted total meltdown of the Artic in 5 years. Year one ended up with 20% more ice than the previous year. Must be going to start next year. He didn't say if it was going to loose 20% per year or just do it all in one year.

So, here's the challenge. Predict the annual, semidecadal and decadal temperature change. If the predictions fail, they your settled science may not be all that settled.

Too Bad it Wasn't Going to Fight Global Warming

The story about a 777 flight with 5 passengers creating an "eco uproar" would have been a story about how the greedy airlines stranding people if they had done what the enviros wanted or it would have been a glowing story if it had been 5 campaigners against global warming flying to some tropical isle to further the cause.