With all the talk about CO2 and global warming today, it’s odd that the heating mechanism to blame for this concern – the Greenhouse Effect – is seldom contemplated or discussed. Rather, it’s taken for granted.

It is a popular view that “greenhouse gases” act like a blanket or winter clothing. As a thermal camera consistently testifies, after all, a body that suppresses heat loss cools off less, which is to say “stays warmer.” 

Indeed, notice in this case the bright thermal radiation escaping from the children’s bare faces versus the darkness of their winter jackets.

Insulation limits heat loss, pure and simple. And that’s what the Greenhouse Effect does too.

Compared to this popular belief, however, the scientific view proposes something quite peculiar. It contends that under a jacket of greenhouse gases the Earth will radiate as much to its surroundings as it would WITHOUT such insulation.

Is it not great that the courageous Professor Will Happer should once again declare roundly that Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant? Is it not great again that he should emphasize the role, indeed the huge benefits, to plants and agriculture from more atmospheric Carbon Dioxide? What he says is basic Biology. Everybody knows that green plants feed on Carbon Dioxide and produce Oxygen as a by-product for us humans to breathe.

Why then does he once again shoot himself in the foot by declaring: –

“Second, the “warming” from CO2 — and yes, CO2 is a “greenhouse gas” — has been much less than predicted by the climate models Obama bases his policies on. For 20 years, the temperature has been virtually unchanged, in stark contrast to model predictions.”

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Former Science Adviser to Northern Ireland’s First Minister, Terri Jackson, issues stinging attack on what she describes as “scientific fraud” woven into climate policies. 

As Britons gear themselves up for a crucial referendum on further membership of the troubled European Union Jackson, founder of the Energy (climate) group at the Institute of Physics in London exposes the multi-billion Euro climate scam that relies heavily on junk science.

In a hard-hitting, fact filled summary of the key points known to many thousands of skeptical scientists, Jackson urges voters to beware stark admissions from Christiana Figueres (pictured right), the U.N. climate change chief since 2010 made in February last year.

Figueres said:

“This is the first time in history we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally within a decade to change the economic development model that has been reigning since the Industrial revolution”

Jackson retorts: “So what she wants is an end to capitalism founded on ‘fossil fuels’ which has brought prosperity to millions and a return to the hell of communism centred on the UN. She is in that same club as the first UN head of environment the late Maurice Strong who was a dedicated communist.”

The award-winning song of the Von Trapp Family in the musical The Sound of Music is getting a new lease on life from an unexpected corner – the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation or CSIRO for short, in Australia. There, at CSIRO, emphasis is shifting from climate modelling to mitigation and adaption. 

Further afield, things don’t look much better for the anti-carbon crowd that is recommending “decarbonisation” with battle cries like “Leave it in the Ground” and related ideas. One of the most recent findings is that coral reef bleaching (i.e., coral death) may just be a result of viral infections. Up till now, most studies claimed the bleaching to be the result of “climate change.”

The greenhouse gas theory, cornerstone of man-made global warming ‘science’, is further undermined by Canadian scientist, Joseph E Postma.  This Astrophysicist, like a growing number of skeptics,  points to how respected textbooks on Thermodynamics are contradicting the hitherto popular notion that carbon dioxide can dangerously warm Earth’s atmosphere.

Postma writes:

They Agree with the Debunk

From “Thermodynamics”, G. J. V. Wylen, John Wiley & Sons, 1960:

“Heat is defined as the form of energy that is transferred across a boundary by virtue of a temperature difference or temperature gradient. Implied in this definition is the very important fact that a body never contains heat, but that heat is identified as heat only as it crosses the boundary. Thus, heat is a transient phenomenon. If we consider the hot block of copper as a system and the cold water in the beaker as another system, we recognize that originally neither system contains any heat (they do contain energy, of course.) When the copper is placed in the water and the two are in thermal communication, heat is transferred from the copper to the water, until equilibrium of temperature is established. At that point we no longer have heat transfer, since there is no temperature difference. Neither of the systems contains any heat at the conclusion of the process. It also follows that heat is identified at the boundaries of the system, for heat is defined as energy being transferred across the system boundary.”

Thus, there is no heat transfer from the atmosphere to the surface, or from a cooler object to a warmer object in general. And since positive heat flow is what is required for temperature increase, then no cooler object raises the temperature of a warmer object by utilization of its thermal energy.

Major changes in world climate politics are afoot as policymakers realize climate models are incapable of computing outcomes from global warming mitigation strategies.  Respected scientist, Dr Klaus L E Kaiser writes:

The famous poem “Der Zauberlehrling” or The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Germany’s most acclaimed poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), is coming into focus again. And the ones affected, today’s apprentices of the climate doom “religion” are screaming hell and murder.

Guess what happened:

Dr. L. Marshall, the director of Australia’s foremost climate science research establishment, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation or CSIRO for short, ordered a change of their research emphasis, away from measuring and modelling and more work towards mitigation and adaption.

You’d think that would be great news, actually trying to cope with nature’s 4,500 million years of changing climate on earth. Oh no, CSIRO’S past “apprentices of climate doom and gloom modelling” are all upset.

A recent paper by HJ Schellnhuber et al. from the PIK ([translated as] Germany’s Potsdam Institute of Climate Consequences Research), also associated with the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, has put a new dimension on “climate change.” According to the study by Schellnhuber (pictured), carbon dioxide has a much longer half-life in the earth’s atmosphere than previously found.

Another scientist, Michel Crucifix of the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, not associated with the study, proclaimed “In fact, the mean half-life of CO2 in the atmosphere is of the order of 35,000 years. Consequently, anthropogenic CO2 will still be in the atmosphere in 50,000 years’ time, and even 100,000 years, which is enough to prevent any glaciation.”

You see, the “good news” supposedly is that the presumed “climate-change” villain or evil-extraordinaire de jour, i.e., carbon dioxide (CO2) will postpone the onset of the next ice age by 50,000 to 100,000 years or more.

Correlation does not mean causation.  Is the Zika virus being used as a scapegoat for Pharma’s dangerous adverse effects? 

The world of modern medicine has since its inception been one of controversies, scandals and cover ups. Each such episode has bettered the other and is done with a finesse that appears clearly criminal in intent. The Zika virus episode is one of the best examples of this and hides a very cruel agenda behind it.

On February 1st 2016, the WHO declared the Zika virus epidemic a global public health emergency. This was even before it formally sat for a Skype meeting on February 2nd. What caused this urgency? The Zika virus, WHO claimed, had caused an epidemic of microcephaly in Brazilian children around 4000 of who had been affected since October 2015. Microcephaly is a condition where children are born with a small size of the skull and sometimes with under developed brains.

A study published in the journal Vaccine has brought to light an extremely disturbing though still virtually unreported dark side to immunization campaigns within low-income countries, namely, the observation that infant mortality sometimes increases when the number of co-administered vaccines increases. 

This finding is diametrically opposed to the widely held belief that vaccination is always a life-saving intervention, and that the more vaccines administered to infants the better.  

Study Links DTP and Yellow Fever Vaccines To Infant Deaths

The new observational study from the West African country Guinea-Bissau titled, “Co-administration of live measles and yellow fever vaccines and inactivated pentavalent vaccines is associated with increased mortality compared with measles and yellow fever vaccines only,”[i] opens with a reference to the already consistent observation in the biomedical literature that the co-administration of inactivated diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine and live attenuated measles vaccine (MV) increases mortality compared with receiving MV only. [ii] [iii]

Winter was coming. In AD 536, the first of three massive volcanic eruptions ushered in a mini ice age. It coincided with an epidemic of the plague, the decline of the eastern Roman Empire, and sweeping upheavals across Eurasia. 

Now we have the first evidence that the disruption to climate continued a lot longer than a decade, as was previously thought. The extended cold period lasted until around 660, affecting Europe and Central Asia, and perhaps the rest of the world too.

The work builds on research that used ice cores to identify three significant volcanic eruptions in the years 536, 540 and 547. Now Ulf Büntgen at the Swiss Federal Research Institute in Birmensdorf and his colleagues have used tree ring data from Europe and Central Asia to show that decades of cooler summers – in some cases 4 °C cooler – ensued, probably caused by volcanic particulates in the atmosphere.

I am a climate skeptic. Many skeptics know that and have even contributed to my book Climate for the Layman. But we are losing the argument and for one simple reason.  We keep, – or at least some of us – keep up the illusion that there is such a thing as a Global Temperature. There is no such entity and never has been. Furthermore there is no such thing as an average Global Temperature either.

Peace be to Dr. Christy of the University of Alabama, for whom I have the greatest respect. He assures me that there is an average Global Temperature arrived at by inference from remote sensing from satellites. This is done by counting the number of joules, which as you all know I trust, are units of energy.

But may I humbly beg to differ. It is manifestly impossible to put in all the data in order to arrive at an average. It is clear that an average such as NASA provides based upon some 3,486 weather stations situated at 5ft above the ground is just nonsense. Why? Because in the whole of this sacred Planet of ours to determine the temperature based upon such a sparse amount is truly ridiculous. Moreover of the 3,486 stations 3,269 are situated in the relatively warm areas of Europe, America, and Africa. How many stations are there in the vast continent of Antarctica? Merely 8. Read that again – merely 8.

Days after the German chancellor triggered the creation of hydrogen plasma for less than a second, China has announced that one of its fusion reactors has broken the record for plasma creation.

On Friday the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced that its boffins had created the 102-second plasma burn in its Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) at Hefei, capital city of east China’s Anhui Province.

During the experiment, sensors recorded the plasma’s temperature at 50 million degrees Celsius (90 million degrees Fahrenheit). That’s more than three times as hot as the core of the sun, which NASA estimates is a toasty 15 million degrees Celsius (27 million degrees Fahrenheit).

The Chinese experiment is a major step forward in fusion research, but the Middle Kingdom magicians have much bigger plans. They hope the EAST instrument will eventually be able to sustain plasma for 1,000 seconds at twice the current temperature.

A well-functioning technological society is built on and operates with a mutually advantageous system of benefit and reward; outreach is one of the “in”-terms these days, as are globalisation, internet service and its instantaneous communication facilities.

They have brought about massive shifts in many aspects. One of such shifts is in innovation.

The Competition

There are companies, let’s call them service providers (SPs) that sprung up to make use of the great new global communication potential. Their raison d’être is bringing together actual problems with potential solvers of such. Typically, they publish a “Seeker’s” problem and their registered “Solvers” can compete for the reward.

There is no limit to the type of problems or promised rewards. The problems can range from small improvements for existing materials or technologies to brainstorming of most complex problems and searching for novel ideas, processes, and so forth. Just to give you an example of what it is about, here is a screenshot of an actual and current problem, with a deadline of Feb. 12, 2016, as obtained from a screenshot: 

Groundbreaking research could help fertility treatment … or create custom humans. UK scientists have been given the green light to use the CRISPR gene editing technique to experiment on unused human embryos in what is described as a boon to biological research. 

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) granted approval to London’s Francis Crick Institute to explore the earliest moments of human life using the latest genetics research techniques.

It is also the first time such research has been cleared by a Western Government regulator.

Scientists in China have tinkered with the DNA of embryos and last year announced they ad altered a gene to correct a blood disorder.

It will remain illegal to implant a manipulated embryo into the womb of a woman.

Francis Crick Institute developmental biologist Dr Kathy Niakan will use the pioneering CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique to alter genes in healthy human embryos in research lasting a week after fertilisation when embryos reach about 250 cells.

A landscape architect believes she might have solved the mystery of Stonehenge’s origin. Sarah Ewbank believes the ancient structure was a two-storey “majestic roundhouse” and has used her 30 years of experience in design to create a scale model. 

It has taken nearly a year of research and studying the footprint of the stones to come up with the theory. She thinks it was once used as a multi-purpose venue and says not being an archaeologist has allowed her to think about it logically.

“Archaeologists are very obsessed with dating and the meaning of it,” she said. “I looked at it and thought it was a ruin, and that with my design skills I could work out what was there. In our climate back in the Bronze Age it still rained, and why would you move 75 large stones just so you could dance around twice a year? If you put a roof on it you can use it all year.”

Sarah says the frame would have been made out of oak with thatch used to keep out the elements.

Key to her concept was finding four lines that spanned across the central space, which she interpreted as being huge support beams.

She also noted that the height difference existing between the central giant stones was necessary to allow them be raised from horizontal to vertical.

Respected international scientist, Dr Klaus L E Kaiser, issues words of caution in the wake of the Zika virus and concerns over mosquito-caused infectious diseases and ‘dangerous’ climate change.  Kaiser writes:

Just in case you feel a need for being on the lam, nature has a tip for you! Whether you’re hiding out in the bush or mingling with the downtown (abbey ??) crowd, you ought to wear the old-fashioned zebra-type striped garb. You know what I mean, the kind of garb that was common in certain government institutions, like in the picture nearby.

After all, as was recently reported in the journal PLOS ONE in an article entitled “Zebra Stripes through the Eyes of Their Predators, Zebras, and Humans,” it seems to be particularly important in the African savannah to avoid not only them nasty lions but, more importantly, blood-sucking insects, like mosquitos.