At first they just came for the light bulbs and I did not speak out.
Because these days, I like to hide out in the darkness of my nice warm basement.

Then they came for the plastic bags and I did not speak out.
Because I was already using the replacement bag they had issued to me as per the minimum consumption laws made of 100% Polyester (imitation weave no less).

Then they came with this giant, tandem diesel powered monster of a truck to pickup and compost my “bagged” leaves and I did not speak out because I didn’t have any bags.
So they issued me their new paper bags with 100% of the 30% portion being recycled paper, or a 70% loss in real trees.

Then they came for my oil and I did not speak out.
Because they had already confiscated my Smartcar and recycled it into a wheelbarrow that they forced me to use every Earth Day to help them discover new sites to plant more and more and more trees.

Then they came for the BBQ and I did not speak out.
Because it doesn’t matter what the F*&% you do to a vegetarian hotdog, it still tastes like $hit.

Then they came for the air conditioner and I did not speak out.
Because by this time, the inevitable cool climate trend had cycled in once again as it has for billions of eons all by it’s poor little self, for reasons we do not and may not ever understand.

Then they came to register me to vote, and I did not speak out.
So they impaled my poor little weed infested, pesticide free front lawn with one of their plastic Green Party reelection signs.

Finally they came for me and I COULD not speak out.
Because there was nothing left to give, or take.

Our children will not be suffering a hell on earth on a toxic melting planet after all because the theory of humans destroying planets with C02 (one of the building blocks of life) has been proven false since it is 25 years old now.
“Sustained, unprecedented and escalating warming” -IPCC
Be happy and learn to respect nature, not fear for it.
STOP THE PANIC:
1-There IS debate.
2-The theory is 25 years old.
3-La Nina is stronger than global warming the theory now admits.
So preserve our environment, not rescue it with fear from a non-existent crisis.
Contribute to the advancement of our civilization to use nuclear power to fuel electric cars instead of going back in time to live with less.
We are living longer than at any time in human history and there is no reason for this not to continue if we just learned to embrace the future with optimism, not terror.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/na.html

2006 – 2008 Trend = -44.25 degF / Decade COOLING
2005 – 2008 Trend = -16.35 degF / Decade COOLING
2004 – 2008 Trend = -1.50 degF / Decade COOLING
2003 – 2008 Trend = -0.69 degF / Decade COOLING
2002 – 2008 Trend = -2.47 degF / Decade COOLING
2001 – 2008 Trend = -0.17 degF / Decade COOLING
2000 – 2008 Trend = -0.74 degF / Decade COOLING
1999 – 2008 Trend = -1.08 degF / Decade COOLING
1998 – 2008 Trend = -1.77 degF / Decade COOLING
1997 – 2008 Trend = -0.15 degF / Decade COOLING

1996 – 2008 Trend = 0.92 degF / Decade WARMING
Preserve our world, not SAVE it with needless fear from a myth.

Thanks for the work you are doing. In the long run scientists prevail and ideologues fail.

Despite all the complexities of modern life, it seems to me that unvarnished and unreflective support of three primary behaviors are governing the “way of life” of most people in our culture. These widely shared and consensually validiated behaviors literally drive unbridled growth of production capabilities, unrestrained per human consumption of resources, and unbounded hubris. The leviathan scale and anticipated rise of these objective and subjective all-too-human tendencies could become patently unsustainable soon; whereas, setting limits on the increasing growth of uneconomic production, unhealthy overconsumption, unrestricted population numbers and unconscionable, objectively unjustifiable arrogance could lead the human community toward sustainable ways of living in the world.

Perhaps necessary change is in the offing.

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1176
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php

We have seasons, and weather in a climate that varies unpredictably and is little understood. Even the “scientists” say that it is very challenging research with so much more to learn about climate.
With that in mind, if we don’t understand natural climate, how are we going to be to be able to tell the difference form it and so-called human induced weather? What gives us the rite to say that any climate including for that matter is anything BUT natural? Climate is not like the inside of a nice indoor shopping mall and this sense of urgency over a nothing crisis is something I hope we as a society grow out of. The dirty thirties put things in perspective and people of that time would never have even given this 23 year old theory a second glance in the first place. Now we have medicare, day care, health care, job fares……… . We have had things so good for so long that we don’t know what bad is. That’s why the global warming craze has been so enduring and successful at tapping our collective guilt.
So life goes on, no crisis, it melts, it freezes, we have record hurricanes one year and none at all the next, North America has been cooling for a decade.
I say we all be thankful that CO2 is not a pollutant after all and therefore we should all tackle real pollution, keeping in mind that environmentalism’s accomplishments have been many and our world has improved from that success over the last 40 years. Have a parade. Let’s all be happy with clear perspective without the politics.

Thank you for your excellent follow-up discussion on the data and methodologies behind your research. The short podcasts deliver the headline but often leave us science minded individuals wanting to know more details. I think it is really cool that you took the time to give such a well articulated and detailed reply to Dan and Ben. I look forward to hearing more about your ongoing work (I bookmarked your web page to keep up on your SASS program).

I wanted to point out to other commenters that you are using the AVHRR based sensors on the NOAA-11 and 12 satellites rather than the failing SSM/I sensors on board DMSP-F13 and F15 which caused the recent data problems with NSIDC real-time products. As such, the NSIDC data errors would not impact your findings.

I understand that the NDVI is calculated to approximately a month’s resolution (to normalize for cloud cover, storms, low SNR events, etc…). Thus, the MaxNDVI would be the month range of highest photosynthesis productivity for the year (as opposed to a fixed sample month each year) if I understand your comments.

Is the scope of your research focused mainly on the correlation specifically between greenness and observed coastal land temperatures or are you collaborating with other research groups to correlate to oceanic, atmospheric, solar, and geologic processes which drive the region’s climate variability so that those drivers can be used as longer range predictors?