Istanbul's blog

**Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:04 am

So Gus drops over to show us his new Hummer. A real man's car if there ever was one. He was sure it would impress Edith of the Mighty Chest. Well no such luck but she did fancy the color. Nipple pink.
"Why did you buy that machine?" enquired Edith of the MC." Don't you believe it causes global warming?"

"It is for the environment" replied Gus. "It beats your hybrid all to hell. Heck just check this out!"

"But Albert drives one and his movie shows he is a expert on climate change" noted Edith of the MC.

"So Gus, whats with Albert and his climate change movie?" I asked.

"yep, you are the local expert" chimed in EmmyLou.

"There are no experts" replied Gus. "Only crackpots, fraudsters and con men."

"Don't forget the sheep" I added. "There are millions of those."

"Horse donkey jackass feathers" from Emmy's sweet lips. "Some people say a lot of high paying jobs depend on Global warming being a fact and not a self serving scam, so I checked it out for myself. I went to Tukkiewakchuk to check if the icecap was melting. The world is definitely warming up. Luckily I had some hot weather gear.

In fact most of the workers stripped down to escape the half degree temperature rise in the last 50 years.

It was obvious everywhere. Even in backyards.

Just look at at the models in playboy 50 years ago. They are warmly dressed! Now in 2007 with that extra half degree they are adjusting nekkidwardly."

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"Well look here for a minute y'all. You too Istanbul, quit gawking." That said, Gus picked up some crayons and drew a graph on the kitchen wall.

"There you go, 400,000 years of temperature changes. It goes up 2 degrees and drops 10 degrees every hundred thousand years. Today's snakeoilers ignore the big picture and manipulate the figures to suit their agenda. The climate is always changing. Going up and then down. We have reached the end of the warming cycle and are about to plunge sharply into a ice age over the next 10,000 years. Minus 10 degrees. Will Albert have us burn coal and eat beans to boost "greenhouse" warming gasses? Be wary if he starts to buy up abandoned coal mines."

"But Albert's movie showed a similar graph where CO2 and temperature were in lockstep" piped up Emmy.

"Indeed he did" said Gus. "He should be ashamed to have got it backwards whether by mistake or design. The rise and fall of CO2 follows the temperature rise or fall by 800 years or more. A little fact that proves his case is bullshit. Proved in the great global warming swindle.

Here is a graph of temperature and the main greenhouse gases.

Climate Records from the Vostok Ice Core Covering the Last 420,000 Years - This graph shows the relationship between the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) and the average Antarctic temperature over the past 420,000 years. These measurements were made from atmospheric samples taken from east Antarctica’s Vostok ice core.
Source: National Ice Core Laboratory

This graph presents a view of the relationships between greenhouse gases and temperature in Antarctica over a 420,000-year period. Although these measurements cannot prove what factors caused climate changes, these data do strongly suggest that atmospheric gas concentration and temperature are related.

The red line (at top) and the green line (second from top) show the concentration of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane over the last 420,000 years. The dark blue line (at the bottom) shows the average temperature at the same times, plotted as differences from today’s average temperature (represented by the 0oC line). Deviations above the line represent periods when the average temperature was warmer than today’s temperature; deviations below the line are periods when the average temperature was colder than today’s. It’s immediately apparent that decreases in temperature are associated with decreases in the concentration of these two gases.

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Is it unlikely that every 100,000 years for the last 420,000 years CO2 and methane would somehow mysteriously appear, increase and warm the earth. More likely a quirk in the sun's heat output, a slight swing in the orbit around the sun or some galactic force would vary the intensity of the sunlight upon the earth and planets.

The gases follow the heat. If you want the skinny on global warming just follow the money.