Thursday, August 24, 2017
Cycles
Cycles
This is the first entry of a glossary I will be compiling in response to the so-called "RealClimate" "Comprehensive climate glossary"
RealClimate is an alarmist website headed by an interesting picture of a giant orange sun warming the Earth. But look closely and you will see giant chimneys the size of small planets looming over the Earths atmosphere. No such planet sized chimneys actually exist as far as we know (NASA confirms this), so such an image paints a false reality.
I advise anyone with a nervous disposition to avoid reading the RealClimate "climate glossary". I myself have a stout heart but nevertheless I almost choked on my breakfast when I read the first entry on Aerosols and stumbled across the alarming word "anthropogenic" which had been recklessly placed in the midst of an otherwise harmless sentence. To think that children might innocently stumble across such material.
Realclimate describe an Aerosol as "A collection of airborne solid or liquid particles, with a typical size between 0.01 and 10 µm and residing in the atmosphere for at least several hours. Aerosols may be of either natural or anthropogenic origin."
But just how do they know these airborne solids stay in the atmosphere for "at least several hours"? If you spray a can of deodorant in a fair sized locker room and come back just 30 minutes later the smell will have gone. This is a real world experiment and one which I have performed.
With such flaws in mind I decided to write a corrected climate glossary with up to date Blog Science definitions. The first entry is..
Cycles
sometimes referred to as Natural Cycles
A Cycle is a kind of quasi-mystical non-explanation for climate events unfolding around us which we can invoke to explain away any climate change as natural.
If glaciers are melting, sea ice is declining, temperature is going up and sea level is increasing, well thats just part of a Natural Cycle out of the last ice age and of course we expected that to happen. If the opposite happens and it starts getting colder, glaciers and sea ice start growing, sea ice starts increasing and sea level is dropping, well thats also expected because a Natural Cycle moves in mysterious ways.
Cycles can also be used to predict the future. If the climate is warming its almost certainly going to cool soon and if its cooling there is almost certainly going to be a devastating ice age down the line and we should prepare for it by reducing taxes.
Cycles keep us on our toes and put a few dozen nails in the coffin of manmade global warming at the same time. Some cycles have names, for example PDO, AMO, the unstoppable 1500-year cycle [1] (which recently stopped), the carbon cycle, the accelerating Heartland Climate Conference cycle, and so on. Other cycles remain unknown. Its these invisible unknown cycles that we can blame for climate change when all else fails.
I remember when we marveled at our ignorance of nature and didnt pretend to try to understand it all. Those were the good old days when men would respect Cycles in nature. So-called "scientists" in their lavish towering laboratories made of fine ivory could learn a thing or two about climate from fishermen and farmers who live by Natural Cycles. These are Real People living in the Real World with Real Jobs and Real Concerns about taxes.
Anyway I am rambling now. So concludes the glossary entry for cycles.
[1] http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/wp-print.php?p=1767
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