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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Climate4You

An article from The Nation by Alexander Cockburn railing against the concept of man-made global warming turned me on to climate4you.com. Cockburn concludes with this paragraph that sums up my feelings quite nicely.
The battles in Nicaea in 325 were faith based, with no relation to science or reason. So were the premises of the Copenhagen summit, that the planet faces catastrophic warming caused by manmade CO2 buildup, and that human intervention - geoengineering - could avert the coming disaster. Properly speaking, it's a farce. In terms of distraction from cleaning up the pollutants that are actually killing people, it's a terrible tragedy.
See also: China, massive pollution of.

Climate4you is a terrific site, loaded with all kinds of accessible data and graphs. Here's my favorite so far.


This one is pretty damning. Click on it for a better version of the image. The correlation between the lines is marginal at best. In any case, the site is worth poking around in for a while. Enjoy!

3 comments:

  1. Alexander Cockburn and KT... together at last. ;)

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  2. I would take issue with the assertion that, "The battles in Nicaea in 325 were faith based, with no relation to science or reason," but other than that, yeah, he's pretty much on target.

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  3. Perhaps you should check wattsupwiththat.com for a more rational approach.

    At this point I no longer trust any graph that doesn't both clearly identify the original data and show me at least the past 500 years.

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