FOUND IN ACTUAL HOSPITAL RECORDS

FOUND IN ACTUAL HOSPITAL RECORDS  BY Norman R. McBride

By the time he was admitted, his rapid heart had stopped, and he was feeling better.

Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.

The patient states there is a burning pain in his penis which goes to his feet.

On the second day the knee was better and on the third day it had completely disappeared.

She has had no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night.

I will be happy to go into her GI system; she seems ready and anxious.

Patient was released to outpatient department without dressing. I have suggested that he loosen his pants before standing, and then, when he stands with the help of his wife, they should fall to the floor.

The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed.

Discharge status: Alive but without permission. T

The patient will need disposition, and therefore we will get Dr. Blank to dispose of him.

Healthy appearing decrepit 69 year-old male, mentally alert but forgetful.

The patient refused an autopsy.

The patient has no past history of suicides.

The patient expired on the floor uneventfully.

Patient has left his white blood cells at another hospital.

Patient was becoming more demented with urinary frequency.

The patient's past medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40 pound weight gain in the past three days.

She slipped on the ice and apparently her legs went in separate directions in early December.

The patient experienced sudden onset of severe shortness of breath with a picture of acute pulmonary edema at home while having sex which gradually deteriorated in the emergency room.

The patient left the hospital feeling much better except for her original complaints.

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Reference: Non-water flushing, Bangkok Post My Home Magazine, April 22, 2010

It has been a long and bitterly cold winter in the Himalayas with record snowfall; and so I was surprised to read in the Bangkok Post that the Mekong River is drying up because "the amount of ice and snow in the Himalayas this winter is less than usual, and much of it melted in January and February" due to global warming (Non-water flushing, Bangkok Post My Home Magazine, April 22, 2010). Has the global warming juggernaut reached such momentum that even actual weather data don't matter?

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Book Reviews, Bangkok Post, April 23, 2010

The reference to the New World natives as Injuns or Indians certainly derives from "los indigenas", the Spanish term for native people. The popular folklore that the term has something to do with India is fanciful speculation.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Less ice less pups, Bangkok Post, April 19, 2010

Changing wind patterns in the Arctic Oscillation cycle - not temperature - had caused an extensive summer melt of Arctic sea ice in 2007 and a low Arctic ice extent in October of that year. Nevertheless, global warming activists seized on this melt data as the leading indicator of climate change Armageddon with headlines saying that the Arctic "is screaming", that it is the "canary in the coal mine", and that polar bears and other creatures in the Arctic are dying off and facing imminent extinction. They said that melting sea ice had set up a positive feedback system that would cause the summer melts in subsequent years to be greater and greater until the Arctic became ice free in the summer of 2012 unless we acted immediately to cut carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.

Press releases and "research papers" in this vein continue to this day even though the trend in the summer melt extent has been going in exactly the opposite direction and even though Arctic ice has made a complete recovery from its 2007 melt and even though no actual empirical study of animal populations has shown that their numbers are diminishing.

The 2007 ice data have given such momentum to global warming advocacy that even now, in 2010, in the face of overwhelming data to the contrary, we find find two articles in the Bangkok Post still screaming about Arctic creatures endangered by global warming. Clearly, there are still too many scientists out there whose livelihood depends on publishing papers that support the war against carbon dioxide.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes, April 17, 2010

Global warming scientists have come up with the bizarre idea that carbon dioxide causes volcanic eruptions in Iceland. The argument goes that carbon dioxide emissions cause global warming, global warming in turn causes glaciers in Iceland to melt, and melting glaciers lighten the weight of the ice cap on volcanoes and thereby trigger eruptions (Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes, April 17, 2010).

It is clearly a sinister attempt to ride the media wave created by the volcanic eruption under the Eyjafjallajoekull glacier and to use that fear factor to sell their war against carbon dioxide. The reality is of course very different. Melting glaciers do not cause volcanic eruptions. Volcanic eruptions cause melting glaciers.

We now know that much of the glacier melt that the global warming people tried to pin on carbon dioxide was actually caused by geothermal activity under the ice not just in Iceland but also in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and in Greenland. They have not learned from their prior errors committed while dishonestly overselling the global warming hype and are about to commit VolcanoGate right in the heels of HimalayaGate and dozens of other humiliating retractions.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Forecasters predict good monsoon season, Bangkok Post, April 15, 2010

For about two years now the global warming people have been warning us that our carbon dioxide emissions will weaken and delay the monsoon in South Asia with devastating results that were to include drought, crop failure, and and hunger (Climate change to delay monsoon in South Asia, Bangkok Post, March 20, 2009). Yet, the 2009 monsoon came right on time not at all delayed or weakened and whatever devastation it may have caused came as floods and not as drought (Flash floods from heavy monsoon rains, Bangkok Post, July 21, 2009); and the 2010 monsoon is expected to do the same (Forecasters predict good monsoon season, Bangkok Post, April 15, 2010). Those who make policy decisions based on the long term forecasts of the IPCC that cannot be checked against data may wish to consider that all - every one - of their shorter term forecasts that can be checked against ensuing data have been proven false.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: 800 flee eruption, Bangkok Post, April 15, 2010

In the heydays of the global warming movement glacial advances were ignored and glacial retreats exaggerated and ascribed to carbon dioxide emissions. Geothermal effects were not considered even after it became known that the melt data on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were taken from a region with volcanic activity under the ice (The fire below, Bangkok Post, April 28, 2008). Now that the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull has erupted and broken through the ice for all to see, can we expect yet another retraction from the IPCC with respect to retreating glaciers in Iceland along the lines of their retraction of the state of impending catastrophe about retreating glaciers in the Himalayas?

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Nuclear dead end, Bangkok Post, April 15, 2010

All energy consultants who are Green activists are motivated primarily by their Green agenda and in this instance that agenda happens to be to oppose nuclear power production (Nuclear dead end, Bangkok Post, April 15, 2010). Although their opinions need to be heard and balanced with those of the nuclear power industry, it is necessary for policy makers to remain objective as they weigh these extreme and biased viewpoints.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Kingdom sees big struggle to remain carbon neutral, Bangkok Post, April 14, 2010

Bhutan is currently carbon negative, not carbon neutral (Kingdom sees big struggle to remain carbon neutral, Bangkok Post, April 14, 2010), and a struggle if any, not to remain but to achieve carbon neutrality, would require a massive increase, not a decrease, in energy consumption by this tiny country whose main feature is extreme poverty in isolated valleys among towering and uninhabitable mountains. Although Bhutan is often mentioned in the context of global warming, it's energy consumption and carbon neutrality are really quite irrelevant when one considers that the USA alone consumes more energy in a few minutes than what Bhutan consumes in a year. Nor is Bhutan a model for other countries to emulate unless things like poverty, illiteracy, and poor medical and infrastructure services are worth emulating.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: America will be just fine, Bangkok Post, April 7, 2010

On the one hand, Western pundits warn us about the dangers of an impending "population bomb" brought about by overpopulation. We are told that the planet is being overwhelmed by the sheer number of people on it and will soon be unable to supply us with sufficient food, water, shelter, and energy and so we must do everything we can to control the population growth rate.

On the other hand, we find that the Western nations themselves are scrambling for population growth to the point that the United States is now counting on a vigorous fertility rate to boost its population to 400 million by the year 2050 as a way of gaining economic advantage over nations with more stable populations (America will be just fine, Bangkok Post, April 7, 2010).

We thus find that the same nations that fund anti-fertility programs to limit population growth in Asia and Africa are, at the same time, gloating about their ability to increase fertility and growth rate of their own populations.

These contradictions raise serious questions. Is population growth good or bad? Is the population bomb a global problem or a localized one? To protect the planet from the population bomb should the population growth in some areas be restricted while that in others encouraged?

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Droughts, floods sped up Angkor's demise, Bangkok Post, March 31, 2010

Scientists studying the Angkor ruins in Cambodia have found that the city died in the 15th century from extreme weather events in the form of alternating periods of floods and drought. Climate scientists may wish to take note of these findings so that they may become aware that extreme weather events such as droughts and floods are not unique to a post-industrial world subjected to the carbon footprint of human activity. Thereby they would be spared the extraordinary effort they make to link every instance of extreme weather to carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Green economy could save the planet, Bangkok Post, March 31, 2010

I have good news and bad news for those who believe that the earth is "overheated, under-resourced, and out of time"and that "reducing greenhouse gases" will "save the planet" (Green economy could save the planet, Bangkok Post, March 31, 2010). The bad news is that if the planet were in danger there is nothing we could do about it because humankind does not possess the ways and means to save it. "Reducing greenhouse gases" would not do it. The good news is that the planet is not overheated, under-resourced, or out of time and it does not need saving.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Rising sea levels sinks New Moore Island in Bangladesh, AP, March 24, 2010

Bangladesh is the world's largest delta with over 80% of its land described as a flood plain. Deltas are formed by sedimentation. They are not static but ever changing with a dynamic interplay between land erosion and new land formation.

The rivers that drain into Bangladesh deposit more than 500 million tonnes of sediment each year. Many islands do disappear but new ones form. In the net, more land is gained than lost. In this context, the formation of a single island in the 1970s and its disappearance 30 or so years later are not remarkable and do not have any implications with respect to the supposedly catastrophic effects of carbon dioxide emissions.

Only a measurable trend in a reduction of the total land area of Bangladesh over a period of many years could be presented as evidence of such a global event. These data have not been presented possibly because the delta is actually growing - not shrinking. The rate of growth is estimated to be over 12 square miles per year. These data are not consistent with the idea that a rising sea level caused by carbon dioxide emissions is inundating Bangladesh.

In any event, the claim in the article that the sea level is set to rise by one meter by the year 2050 is at odds with more recent press releases by the IPCC in which even the modest forecast of a rise of 59 cm by the year 2100 has been withdrawn along with a slew of retractions after flaws in their science became widely publicized.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

The unwinding of the climate change hype

The once feared hype about catastrophe from carbon dioxide emissions is in ruins. The failure of the warmists to make their case at the Copenhagen summit came on the heels of leaked emails from climate scientists that exposed a conspiracy to defraud. Even as the IPCC was in damage control mode to defend itself from these charges, there were further even more damaging revelations of scientific fraud and incompetence.

It is now known that scores of their claims about devastation from carbon dioxide emissions including their claim that hurricane Katrina was caused by carbon dioxide emissions, that the Amazon forest will be turned into a savanna, that Africa's agriculture and coral reefs worldwide would be devastated, that the Himalayan glaciers are melting and will be gone in 25 years, that the sea level is rising and inundating atolls in the Pacific, and that the Arctic will be ice free in 15 years, that that glaciers in the Alps and the Andes are in accelerated and alarming decline; are lies.

The IPCC is now busy retracting one scary claim after another apparently in secret as the media that once hyped them have gone silent on the retractions. Even so, the warmists' credibility and its fear factor are both gone. The global warming house of cards is falling apart.

Cha-am Jamal

Thailand

Reference: Meeting Copenhagen's challenge, Bangkok Post, January 22, 2010

Such is the wily power of bureaucratic double-speak that it can paint the failed climate meeting in Copenhagen as a great success; and a document called an "Accord" only because no signatory would accept the word "Treaty", as a positive outcome (Meeting Copenhagen's challenge, Bangkok Post, January 22, 2010). The global warming movement and the whole of the allegedly scientific case against carbon dioxide are based on exactly this kind of word magic that always leads to the same conclusions whatever the data.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Refereence: Coal remains king in China despite climate change vow, Bangkok Post, January 20, 2010 The inability of the envornmentalists to separate pollution issues from global warming will surely adversely affect their effectiveness.

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Posted by: chaamjamal on: January 2, 2022

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THIS POST IS A STUDY OF THE CONTRADICTIONS IN THE SACREDNESS OF BEING INDIGENOUS

WHEN THE EUROPEANS DEVELOPED THE TECHNOLOGY FOR CELESTIAL NAVIGATION AND OCEAN CROSSING SHIPS AND BEGAN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD THEY FOUND AND SETTLED PRIMITIVE UNDEVELOPED REGIONS WITH SPARSE POPULATIONS SUCH AS THE AMERICAS. THE PEOPLE THEY FOUND THERE ARE DESCRIBED AS “THE PEOPLE THAT WE FOUND HERE WHEN WE ARRIVED” OR IN SPANISH “INDIGENOUS”, PRONOUNCED {IN THEE HAY NUSS}.

OVER THE YEARS, IN A WEIRD TWIST OF ENVIRONMENTALISM AND RACISM THE WORD INDIGENOUS HAS BECOME SACRED AND SOME KIND OF RELIGION WHERE THE EUROPEAN SETTLERS ARE NOW IN CHARGE NOT OF HELPING THESE PEOPLE TO DEVELOP ALONG THE LINE OF EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BUT OF PRESERVING THE PRIMITIVE CULTURE AND LIFESTYLE OF THESE PEOPLE.

OF THE MANY CONTRADICTIONS IN THIS SACREDNESS THE MOST CRUEL AND RACIST IS THAT THOUGH THE ADVANCED EUROPEAN RACES ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO THE PRIMITIVE PEOPLES OF OTHER COUNTRIES {SEE LIST AND MAP BELOW}, TO ENLIGHTEN AND ENRICH THEM WITH EUROPEAN METHODS AND TECHNOLOGY, THAT KIND OF ASSISTANCE IS NOT POSSIBLE IF THE PRIMITIVE PEOPLE ARE THE ONES THE EUROPEANS FOUND IN THE NEW LANDS THAT THEY SETTLED. THE SPANISH WORD “INDIGENOUS” HAS TAKEN ON SUCH AN AURA OF SACREDNESS AND ENVIRONMENTALISM THAT IT PREVENTS THE EUROPEANS FROM PROVIDING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO THESE PEOPLE IN THE SAME WAY THAT THEY PROVIDE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO PRIMITIVE PEOPLE ELSEWHERE.

BELOW WE PROVIDE A LIST OF COUNTRIES WITH PRIMITIVE PEOPLE WHOM THE EUROPEANS HAVE HELPED OR ARE CURRENTLY HELPING TO RISE UP TO THE EUROPEAN STANDARD OF LIVING BY PROVIDING THEM WITH DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE ALONG WITH EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY AND VALUES AS WELL AS THINGS LIKE EDUCATION AND UNIVERSITIES. MANY OF THESE COUNTRIES HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES WITH INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY THE GLOBAL NORTH. FOR EXAMPLE, BANGLADESH, ONCE A COUNTRY OF RICE FIELDS AND PRIMITIVE FISHERMEN ON ROW BOATS IS NOW A SIGNIFICANT MANUFACTURER OF SHIPS.

Burundi, Somalia, Mozambique, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Liberia, Niger, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Bangladesh AND SO ON SHOWN IN THE MAP BELOW WHERE THE REDDER THE COUNTRY THE RICHER IT IS AND THE DARKER THE COUNTRY THE POORER IT IS.

THE PHRASE “WE FOUND THEM HERE WHEN WE ARRIVED” TAKES ON SACRED ENVIRONMENTALISM AND RACISM VALUES WHEN IT IS TRANSLATED INTO SPANISH AND THIS RELIGION OBLIGATES THE EUROPEAN SETTLERS TO KEEP THESE PROPLE PRIMITIVE SO THEY CAN WORSHIP THEIR PRIMITIVENESS.

I SHOULD ADD THAT THE EUROPEANS TOO ARE INDIGENOUS. THEY ARE INDIGENOUS TO EUROPE. EVERYONE ON EARTH IS INDIGENOUS TO SOMEWHERE – THE PLACE WHERE THEY WERE BORN AND RFAISED. BUT FOR SETTLERS OF NEW LANDS, THE WORD HAS MAGICAL POWERS.

WE MUST KEEP THEM PRIMITIVE SO WE CAN WORSHIP THEIR PRIMITIVENESS

THIS RACIST CONTRADICTION IS ALSO FOUND IN TRADITIONAL MAINLINE SEEMINGLY ANTI RACIST MOVEMENTS THAT ARE THEMSELVES MORE RACIST THAN THE RACISM THEY APPEAR TO BE OPPOSE. AS FOR EXAMPLE, THE NOW FAMOUS SONG THAT “THE ANSWER MY FRIEND IS BLOWING IN THE WIND, THE ANSWER IS BLOWING IN THE WIND.

IN ALL SUCH CASES, THE ESSENCE OF THE HYPOTHESIS IS THAT THE WHITE MAN IS THE CARETAKER OF THE LESSER HUMANS. IT IS THE RACISM OF THE RACISM OF THE RACISM BUT IT SOUNDS GOOD BECAUSE THE WHITE MAN SAYS HE WILL TAKE CARE OF THE LESSER HUMANS.

Reference: Maldive state of mind, Bangkok Post, January 17, 2010

World leaders went to the climate meeting in Copenhagen to "negotiate" not to discuss "the laws of physics" (Maldive state of mind, Bangkok Post, January 17, 2010). The language of these negotiations was cloaked in pretensions of lofty environmental goals but there was really only one item being negotiated and that item was and is money not physics.

At one level, the money negotiations had to do with the chicanery of the rich countries willing to pay billions to developing countries to stop developing; and at a more seedy and greedy level there were the so called "vulnerable countries" like the Maldives. An extreme form of greed had set in among them when it seemed that they had won the global warming lottery because they apparently stood to collect an immense fortune as reparations from the rich countries. Thereafter, climate negotiations quickly devolved into money negotiations - how much, when, by whom, and to whom. In poker terms, the poor countries called the bluff of the rich and that caused the meeting to end in disarray.

Although much maligned by Thai journalists, Thailand's position in these talks - that it recognizes the Kyoto Protocol as the only international agreement on climate change - has been singularly clear and consistent from beginning to end without a greed component that might have required a media circus like holding a cabinet meeting under water.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Saving forests promises vast societal gains, Bangkok Post, January 14, 2010

Reference: Vanishing ice and political fire, Bangkok Post, January 13, 2010
Reference: Early climate change victim: Andes water, Bangkok Post, December 18, 2007

The Andes around La Paz and El Alto in Bolivia is a semi-arid region with a well known and well documented water supply problem that has periodically gone through crisis situations for all of recorded history. The fragility of the water supply derives from the impermanence of the evanescent glaciers that make up the principal source of water. The history of the region has been shaped by changes in this source of water. The water supply situation there was as bad back in the time of Simon Bolivar as it is today. It is not possible to relate this feature of the Bolivian Andes to carbon dioxide emissions nor to moderate the problem by reducing emissions as repeatedly suggested in the media (Vanishing ice and political fire, Bangkok Post, January 13, 2010; and Early climate change victim: Andes water, Bangkok Post, December 18, 2007)

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Walruses suffer losses as sea ice erodes, Bangkok Post, January 11, 2010

It is a fanciful idea that carbon dioxide emissions are causing polar bears and walruses to die out (Walruses suffer losses as sea ice erodes, Bangkok Post, January 11, 2010) as the data show that their numbers are growing, not diminishing.The only threat to these creatures has been over hunting, not carbon dioxide. They have seen a lot worse than the 2007 summer melt and they are still around and thriving. Subsequent summer melts and winter recoveries in the Arctic after 2007 did not get progressively worse as predicted by the warmists but did exactly the opposite. It is possibly because they have been thus spurned by the ice data that the warmists are now playing the Bambi card with the spurious claim that our carbon dioxide emissions are harming cute and cuddly creatures.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Cold snap not end of global warming, Bangkok Post, January 8, 2010

It is strange irony to see the warmists acknowledge the natural variability of climate (Cold snap not end of global warming, Bangkok Post, January 8, 2010) stating that the coldest northern winter in 40 years " does not disprove global warming" because the bitter winter weather is simply a short term "blip" and a manifestation of "the natural variability of climate". Of course, had it been the warmest winter in 40 years they would be singing a different tune.

That tune is the one they sang for the 2003 heat wave in Europe and the 2007 summer melt of Arctic ice; as well as for Hurricane Katrina, Cyclones Sidr and Aila, recent floods and droughts in China, and droughts in southern Africa, and Australia. In all of these cases, short term weather events and the effects of known regional weather patterns were presented not as "blips" nor as "the natural variability of climate" but as the consequence of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.

In the very same article they slip back to this old tune and present the deceptive statistic that "2009 will rank among the 10 warmest years since 1880" implying that these data indicate a warming trend even though the cited statistic could be produced by the natural variability of climate without a warming trend. In any case, the issue is not the alleged warming trend itself but whether it represents a natural variation or whether it is caused by fossil fuels.

The science of the warmists depends on the unscientific notion that data that support their hypothesis are good data and should be retained while those that do not are blips and outliers that must be discarded; as well as the attitude that they already know the answer and need data only to convince the masses. That attitude renders research methods into propaganda methods and encourages climate scientists to use statistics only as a marketing tool.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

The rise and fall of the global warming hype

A search for the phrases "climate change" and "global warming" in newspapers served by pressdisplay.com identified on average 400 newspaper articles per day during the week ending October 1, 2009. The attached chart shows that in the ensuing weeks, leading up to the climate meeting in Copenhagen, the number rose rapidly reaching 950 newspaper articles per day at the height of the climate summit and thereafter declined precipitously. By the end of the year it had fallen below the October figure of 400 articles per day. In early 2010 a more gradual but steady decline had set in and by the end of January it had fallen below 200 articles per day.

On the heels of this implosion, we find a sudden rise in global warming articles reaching 350 articles per day in early February. This time around, however, the global warming stories are of a different flavor quite unlike the alarmist articles of the past. They are not hysterical descriptions of climate catastrophe but in fact angry reactions of the mainstream media to the fraudulent methods of climate scientists that are now being exposed.

The data show that a massive propaganda machine had taken over a pliant print media and that in the heels of Copenhagen, the global warming propaganda juggernaut had run out out of steam having failed to make its case in that penultimate meeting. It now appears that their failure served to expose not only shortcomings in their case against carbon dioxide but also a modus operandi replete with over zealous evangelism and scientific fraud. All along the Quixotic war on carbon dioxide by so called "climate scientists" had never been science but rather a case of environmental jihad based on what they believed were revealed truths of a divine nature and that therefore the end justified the means and science be damned.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Redd Alert, Bangkok Post, January 6, 2010

The idea that carbon dioxide from fossil fuels accumulates in the atmosphere and causes global warming is based on the argument that fossil fuels, having been removed from the carbon cycle for millions of years by geological formations, are an extraneous shock to the current carbon account. The alleged legitimacy of anthropogenic global warming is derived from a clear distinction between nature's carbon flux and man-made carbon emission from fossil fuels. It should be noted that the latter is a very small fraction - less than 5% - of the former and its exaggerated impact on climate is rationalized only in terms of its alleged externality.

Somewhere along the way the warmists appear to have lost track of this aspect of their own theory and have begun to identify even natural and non fossil fuel elements of the carbon cycle as causes of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide. This trend is likely due to a sense of desperation in the warmist camp as people become less and less enamored of their tales of climate catastrophe and also due to the necessity, for the sake of international climate negotiations, of identifying developing countries like Indonesia as major emitters of carbon dioxide at par with the developed countries.

The inclusion of living matter - not just fossils - as emitters carbon dioxide that causes climate change leads to contradictions that have no resolution. For example, it is claimed that 2.3 million tons of carbon emissions per year from "forest destruction" in Indonesia cause climate change (Redd Alert, Bangkok Post, January 6, 2010) but 47 million tons per year of emissions from forest fires in the USA do not; and slash and burn agriculture in Indonesia is considered human activity but a forest fire caused by vandalism is not. It is a recipe for confusion.

The global warming movement has reduced all environmental concerns into a single issue and thus finds itself with the impossible task of having to express traditional environmental problems in terms of carbon and thereby to compromise environmental issues that cannot be thus expressed.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Running out of time, Bangkok Post, December 23, 2009

The observation that the warmest winter on record was caused by carbon dioxide emissions and it happened in the year 2000 (Running out of time, Bangkok Post, December 23, 2009) is presented to support the fossil fuel theory of global warming but in fact it proves the theory wrong because the theory implies that with continued emissions and continued rise in the CO2 content of the atmosphere, the warmest winter on record should be the most recent one on record and not one that happened nine years ago.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Chinese farmers struggle with climate change, Bangkok Post, December 20, 2009

Gansu province is located in the middle of China, the silk road runs through it, and it figures prominently in Chinese history, but throughout history its economic development has been retarded by frequent earthquakes, droughts, and famines. It is a very arid place containing parts of three deserts including the ever expanding Gobi desert. Expanding deserts and desertification of the province has been a long standing problem and is well documented in the historical records that go back thousands of years. It has never been an agriculturally important province. Its recent economic boom is due to mining and not agriculture. The plight of wheat farmers there is best understood in these terms and not in terms of carbon dioxide. The attempt to sell agricultural hardship in this arid land as effects of carbon dioxide emissions (Chinese farmers struggle with climate change, Bangkok Post, December 20, 2009) and the implied offer of agricultural success by emission reduction is dishonest and it is likely part of a strategy to scare China into submitting to the warmist agenda. It will not succeed because Gansu is not important to Chinese agriculture - which has been booming of late with bumper harvests - and because the economic well-being of Gansu itself depends on mining and not on agriculture.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Taking some positives from Copenhagen, Bangkok Post, December 27, 2009

The Copenhagen meeting (Taking some positives from Copenhagen, Bangkok Post, December 27, 2009), advertised by the warmists as a "do or die" watershed event for the global warming movement, appears to have gone in the "die" direction. What had started out as a ploy to use carbon dioxide to contain the rise of new Asian economic powers, and to control a perceived "population bomb" of the undesirable races, has backfired badly leaving the Europeans nothing more than obligations to pay billions of Euros to developing countries for programs that no longer have a context. The money game has been made worse by the enormous greed for reparations that has set in with the countries that the Europeans themselves once hyped as "vulnerable" or "most at risk" as a way of selling the war on carbon dioxide to the poor countries. Instead of joining the war, the vulnerable countries are demanding compensation for the alleged harm caused by Europe's industrial revolution. It has all gone wrong for the warmists. The only "positive" one can take from Copenhagen is that the world's nascent economic recovery has been spared an artificial and catastrophic rise in the cost of energy.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Destruction on a global level, Bangkok Post, December 17, 2009

The warmists had decided in 2005 that Hurricane Katrina was caused by carbon dioxide emissions and held up Katrina as the smoking gun and the "clarion call" in their movement; but when their predictions for more severe hurricane seasons in the ensuing years came up empty, they distanced themselves from hurricanes and moved on to the Bay of Bengal claiming that carbon dioxide emissions are causing cyclone activity there (Destruction on a global level, Bangkok Post, December 17, 2009).

Yet, cyclones have been forming regularly on the Bay of Bengal for hundreds of years. The area has a history of severe and destructive cyclones with more than a hundred cyclones recorded since 1732. Of the 30 deadliest cyclones only two, Nargis and 02B, occurred after the year 1979 that marks the end of the last cooling period and the year that global warmists cite as the beginning of the current warming trend.

The most devastating cyclone on record hit East Pakistan in 1970 and became the proximate cause of the separation of that region into the new country we know as Bangladesh. The second most severe cyclone hit Kolkata in 1737. In fact the 8 worst Bay of Bengal cyclones struck while atmospheric CO2 was less than 300 ppm. It is not possible to conclude from historical cyclone data that they are caused by carbon dioxide. It cannot be argued that Bay of Bengal cyclones can be moderated by lowering CO2 emissions.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Destruction on a global level, Bangkok Post, December 17, 2009

The soil salinity problem in southern Bangladesh has been misrepresented as an effect of carbon dioxide and "rising seas" (Destruction on a global level, Bangkok Post, December 17, 2009). Shrimp farming did not take root because of soil salinity as claimed in the article. Rather, soil salinity took root because of shrimp farming as explained below.

The export oriented shrimp farming boom in Bangladesh started twenty years ago and it caused large coastal agricultural areas to be leased, flooded with sea water, and converted into commercial shrimp farms. The boom went bust in 2008 after the financial crisis dried up the market for large and expensive shrimp in the West and the shrimp farms are being abandoned as a result.

Abandoned shrimp farms leave behind agricultural wastelands because the salinity of the soil caused by shrimp farming makes it impossible to grow traditional crops. Farmers who leased their land out to shrimp producers now face a tragic situation because the leases have been terminated and they have taken possession of their farms but they can't grow anything on them.

It is a sad tale of human suffering and it deserves the attention of the appropriate relief agencies but it has absolutely nothing to do with carbon dioxide.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Climate change 101, Bangkok Post, December 16, 2009

To establish the idea that carbon dioxide causes global warming, it is claimed that "The notion of warming comes from basic science: Carbon dioxide traps heat." (Climate change 101, Bangkok Post, December 16, 2009). Basic science does tell us that carbon dioxide absorbs heat but that in itself is not enough to conclude that the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels has caused global warming. The essential parameter for that relationship is the climate sensitivity of carbon dioxide.

The source of that parameter is not "basic science" but an empirical correlation computed between CO2 and temperature in Antarctic ice core data. However, to use these data in this way is not scientific; first because correlation between historical data does not imply causality; and second because carbon dioxide lags temperature in the data.

The lag shows that during periods of warming, temperature goes up first and carbon dioxide rises later. Therefore rising carbon dioxide levels could not have been the cause of warming. In any case, a correlation between x and y in uncontrolled field data could exist if x causes y or if y causes x or if a third unobserved variable causes both x and y or if the correlation is spurious. To derive causality from such data is bad science.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Polar ice may go in five years, Bangkok Post, December 16, 2009

An unusually extensive summer melt of Arctic ice in 2007 encouraged warmists to abandon Antarctica and seize on the Arctic as their primary evidence of impending climate change catastrophe and to predict that global warming will cause a steep decline in the amount of ice left in subsequent summer melts until the Arctic becomes ice free in summer (Polar ice may go in five years, Bangkok Post, December 16, 2009). The ice free summer was initially forecast for 2080 but in later revisions the year was changed to 2060 and then to 2030 and finally to 2013 although the data show that in 2008 and 2009 the summer melt did not progressively increase as predicted and as required by their proposed theory. Instead summer ice did just the opposite by making a comeback in 2008 that got even stronger in 2009.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: What and where is our climate change policy, Bangkok Post, December 16, 2009

Thailand's climate change policy is the Kyoto Protocol and the Thai delegation to Copenhagen has clearly presented that policy and has made a point of reminding all observers that Thailand intends to abide by it and expects the Annex 1 countries to do likewise. As for the sinister reference to the encroachment of sea water in Samut Prakan as an effect of carbon dioxide emissions (What and where is our climate change policy, Bangkok Post, December 16, 2009), kindly note that such encroachment in the Bangkok Groundwater Area, that includes Samut Prakan, is a well known effect of land subsidence caused by ground water extraction and is completely unrelated to carbon dioxide. The repeated attempt by the global warming people to present these data as effects of carbon dioxide emissions speaks to the desperate nature of their science.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: The giant climate fraud in Copenhagen, Bangkok Post, December 13, 2009

An article breathlessly promoting climate catastrophe hysteria claims that "Himalayan ice is rapidly vanishing and will be gone by 2035 so the great rivers of Asia that are born there will shrivel and cease" to provide water to a quarter of humanity (The giant climate fraud in Copenhagen, Bangkok Post, December 13, 2009).

The preposterous and scientifically impossible idea that the Himalayan ice will be gone by 2035 comes from the IPCC which initially cited a research paper that claimed that Himalayan glaciers will be gone by 2350. As this statement may not have contained the fear factor that the warmists wanted, the date has been whittled back to 2035 without explanation and Himalayan glaciers have been gradually expanded to include all Himalayan ice.

As for rivers running dry, the IPCC specifically targets the Ganges river claiming it will go bone dry by 2035 because of vanishing ice. Kindly note that the Ganges derives less than 5% of its water from glacial melt.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Low carbon is the economy of the future, Bangkok Post, December 12, 2009

In their hour of desperation, what the rich countries are saying to the poor countries is this: Look, there are just too many of you and if you all end up living high off the hog like we do, there would be way too much carbon dioxide and that would be bad for global warming. So please, stay poor and keep the status quo - with you as the white man's burden and we the all powerful rich, able and willing to take care of you with billions of Euros of aid should global warming devastation strike (Low carbon is the economy of the future, Bangkok Post, December 12, 2009). Unfortunately for the rich, the poor countries are not falling for this line for they know well that if their rate of economic growth is not ambushed by the rich countries' war on carbon dioxide, by the year 2100, when global warming devastation is predicted to strike, they will be rich enough to take care of these problems all by themselves.

What's more, if the rich are serious about committing economic suicide in their vain attempt to control the planet's climate, it is they that will be the poor countries in 2100 freeing up resources for the newly rich; but not to worry, because the newly rich countries of the future will be able and willing to take care of the newly poor and to help them weather the storm of global warming with billions of Bahts, Rupees, and Yuans in aid and assistance.

The message from the poor countries is this: don't keep us poor so that you can take care of us. Let us get as rich as you, so we can take care of ourselves.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Warming trend is clear, Bangkok Post, December 9, 2009

It is reported that the summer melt of Arctic ice was the third most extensive on record in 2009, second 2008, and the most extensive on record in 2007; and that these data show that our carbon dioxide emissions are causing Arctic ice to gradually diminish until it will be gone altogether ( Warming trend is clear, Bangkok Post, December 9, 2009).

In fact, the data show the exact opposite. If the claimed trend were correct, Arctic ice would not have fully recovered after the 2007 summer melt and the 2008 and 2009 summer melts would have been progressively greater not less. For the argument in the article to hold water, the 2009 autumn ice extent needs to be the lowest on record with 2008 the second lowest and 2007 the third lowest; and in fact this is what the IPCC had predicted in 2007, but that is not what happened.

The case against carbon dioxide is not clear but murky and sinister.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: CO2 models falling short, Bangkok Post, December 7, 2009

In the Pliocene warm period the earth was warmer than it is now but with atmospheric carbon dioxide about the same as it is now. This state of the world is inconsistent with the global warming climate model in which warming is driven primarily by atmospheric carbon dioxide. The obvious conclusion is that the global warming climate model is wrong and carbon dioxide is not the principal driver of global warming. However, unwilling to give up on their war against carbon dioxide, the warmists have devised a fudge factor - an unknown and unobservable latent heat effect - that would explain why it is cooler now than the Pliocene (CO2 models falling short, Bangkok Post, December 7, 2009) noting that not now, but a few hundred years from now, extra heat from the carbon dioxide that is already in the air now will make the data come out right and validate their climate model. It is clearly an exercise in pushing the Copenhagen agenda and not unbiased scientific inquiry.

Chaa-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Editorial to the world urges action on global warming, Bangkok Post, December 8, 2009

A global editorial on global warming calls for decisive action in Copenhagen to cut carbon dioxide emissions (Editorial to the world urges action on global warming, Bangkok Post, December 8, 2009) saying that "The question is no longer whether humans are to blame". Yet, that is precisely the question in Copenhagen. The agenda there is based entirely on the ability of human beings to control the world's mean surface temperature by attenuating their use of fossil fuels. The proposal to cut CO2 emissions would make no sense otherwise.

The editorial also claims that "climate change has been caused over centuries and has consequences that will endure for all time"and that inaction in Copenhagen will cause "half of all species to become extinct". These are highly charged and grossly inaccurate statements. Our use of fossil fuels could not have been causing climate change for centuries because we have not been using fossil fuels in any quantity for that long. As for specie diversity, earth's prior climate history for millions of years shows that episodes of climate change - particularly global warming - have been associated not with a reduction of specie diversity but with veritable explosions in the number of species during which many old species die off and many more new ones are created. These data have caused the theory of evolution to be revised to include the idea that mutations occur not at random but under environmental stress.

It would be a sad chapter in human history if we commit economic suicide Jim Jones style in the vain and Quixotic belief that we are in control of the planet's climate. Our climate has never endured and has never been stable and has always been dynamic and ever changing. The human race, even with all its knowledge and technology, is insignificant on a planetary scale. On what basis do we expect to be able to stabilize nature? We appear to be in the grip of some kind of mass insanity.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Himalayan glacier melts to hit billions of poor, Bangkok Post, December 7, 2009

In 2007, the IPCC issued a report citing data on the retreating Gangotri glacier in the Himalayan mountains that showed that the rate of retreat had accelerated from 19 m/yr in 1971 to 34 m/yr in 2001. They extrapolated the observed acceleration forward and wrote that global warming devastation due to carbon dioxide was only a decade away for people who depend on the Ganges and other rivers with headwaters in the Himalayas.

This scenario continues to be widely disseminated in the media (Himalayan glacier melts to hit billions of poor, Bangkok Post, December 7, 2009) in spite of more recent data that show that the predicted acceleration has not occurred; with the IPCC going so far as to vilify Indian scientists who who published the data as climate change deniers.

In any case, the idea that glacial retreat in the Himalayas will cause the Ganges river to dry up is inconsistent with the observation that the river derives less than 5% of its water from glacial melt. Also of note is that a gradual decline in overall glacial mass worldwide began in 1850, well before fossil fuel consumption and atmospheric carbon dioxide rose to levels that the IPCC has identified with man-made global warming. Therefore it is not a carbon dioxide issue.


Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Don't put the South on the road to permanent poverty, Bangkok Post, December 5, 2009

The global warming alarm began in the early 1990s at about the same time that Deng's new China began its economic ascent. Instead of welcoming China into the global economy, the West responded with paranoia, fearing that a billion Chinese living like Europeans would put a strain on the world's supply of energy and resources and threaten the comfortable lifestyle of the rich nations. It is possible that the global warming agenda of controlling how much fossil fuel gets used, is mechanism to ensure the rich nations' continued access to energy as well as to keep rich nations rich and poor nations poor.

Reference: Climate change's dealmaker, Bangkok Post, December 5, 2009

The implication that higher carbon dioxide emissions from economic growth in Southeast Asia causes extreme weather in Southeast Asia (Climate change's dealmaker, Bangkok Post, December 5, 2009) is contrary to global warming theory which alleges only a global relationship between atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions and temperature. With less than 5% of the world's energy consumption, the region does not hold any leverage at all in global climate patterns even in the most extreme climate sensitivity assumptions. Therefore there can be no causal linkage between fossil fuel consumption in Southeast Asia and typhoons in the region.

As a footnote, the inclusion of a photo of the 2007 drought in southern China is disingenuous because no meaningful correlation can be drawn between carbon dioxide emissions and a history of droughts in southern China recorded in the fang zhi for thousands of years.

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand

Reference: Climate warming on harvest, Bangkok Post, December 3, 2009

The shrill warning about the catastrophic effects of global warming on Chinese agriculture boils down to the tautology that IF sufficiently extreme weather events occur and IF they devastate agriculture, THEN "the impact on the economic and social development of China would be incalculable". Much of the global warming hype is now being delivered as pure hypothetical statements of this nature; so much so that even their position appears to have retreated from a science argument ("the science is settled and we are right") to a Biblical one ("you can't afford to fret about whether we are right or wrong because we could turn out to be right").

Cha-am Jamal
Thailand