1. First Climategate, now Splattergate
In the world of environmentalist propaganda, of the global warming variety, the big news of the week is what some are now calling "Splattergate." The whole controversy surrounds a video put out by a group called 10:10.org depicting, among other things, a teacher blowing up students who wouldn’t pledge to cut back on their carbon emissions.
Fox News’ Megan Kelly picked up on the story and interviewed Climate Depot’s Marc Morano. (I think it was Morano who first referred to the whole affair as "Splattergate.") The scandal may have peaked in the last two days when the film’s big corporate sponsors — Sony and Kyocera Mita — pulled their support.
Former Carolina Journal investigative reporter Paul Chesser has also reported on the controversy.
2. Britain’s Royal Society admits that "it is not known how much warmer the Earth will become."
Great Britain’s leading scientific body has issued an updated guide to climate change. In the guide it acknowledges uncertainties in the science regarding global warming and that it is impossible to know how the earth’s climate will change in the future.
The importance of this acknowledgement cannot be overstated. If future climate change cannot be predicted, then neither can the future consequences of that change, whatever they may be. All predictions of future catastrophe are based on specific predictions of future change. It also means that all cost analyses based on those predictions are just as meaningless. As reported in the Daily Mail, the updated guide states:
Uncertainty can work both ways, since the changes and their impacts may be either smaller or larger than those projected. … There is currently insufficient understanding of the enhanced melting and retreat of the ice sheets on Greenland and West Antarctica to predict exactly how much the rate of sea level rise will increase above that observed in the past century for a given temperature increase.
JLF on global warming:
https://www.johnlocke.org/agenda2010/climatechange.html
https://www.johnlocke.org/research/show/policy%20reports/147
https://www.johnlocke.org/research/show/spotlights/195
https://www.johnlocke.org/research/show/policy%20reports/86
3. Weekly Ozone Report
For the week of September 26 to October 2, the NC DAQ reports no high ozone readings registered on North Carolina monitors. From April 1 through October 2, a total of 27 weeks, North Carolina has had 106 high ozone readings (0.076 ppm or above over an eight-hour period). These readings were scattered around the state over 33 out of 39 different monitors and over 26 different days. Most of the high ozone days to date have occurred in the Charlotte area and in the Triad. [Note: When an ozone alert is made through the media, it is only a prediction. Very often an ozone alert is issued but a high ozone day does not materialize. That is why we are reporting here that during certain weeks there were no actual high ozone days even though ozone alerts may have been issued and reported in the media.]
Links to recent JLF reports on ozone:
https://www.johnlocke.org/research/show/spotlights/234
https://www.johnlocke.org/research/show/spotlights/229
