The VENT

Just as Stephan Dion is getting physical with Carbon, a growing number of scientists are coming out to declare the whole climate change or global warming movement is walking on thin ice.

The following excerpt from the article is interesting …

 Among the 281 Canadians who have endorsed the Declaration to date are the following two dozen leaders in their respective fields:

1 - Mitchell Taylor, PhD, Biologist (Polar Bear Specialist), Wildlife Research Section, Department of Environment, Igloolik, Nunavut
2 - Madhav L. Khandekar, PhD, consultant meteorologist, (former) Research Scientist, Environment Canada, Editor “Climate Research” (03-05), Editorial Board Member “Natural Hazards, IPCC Expert Reviewer 2007, Unionville, Ontario
3 - Wayne Goodfellow, PhD (Earth Science), Ocean Evolution, Paleoenvironments, Adjunct Professor, Senior Research Scientist, University of Ottawa, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
4 - Paul Sandor, BASc, MD, Neuropsychiatry, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
5 - John Brodie, BASc., MASc. (Metallurgical), P.Eng., Director Environmental Affairs, British Columbia Railway Co., Surrey, British Columbia
6 - Dan Carruthers, M.Sc., wildlife biology consultant specializing in animal ecology in Arctic and Subarctic regions, Alberta
7 - Ian D. Clark, PhD, Professor (isotope hydrogeology and paleoclimatology), Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
8 - J.T. Rogers, PhD, FCAE, F.C.S.M.E., P.Eng., nuclear engineer, energy analyst, Adjunct Research Professor and Professor Emeritus, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
9 - Timothy F. Ball, PhD, environmental consultant and former climatology professor - University of Winnipeg, Chair, Natural Resources Stewardship Project, Victoria, British Columbia
10 - R. Timothy Patterson, PhD, Professor & Director, Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center, Department of Earth Sciences (paleoclimatology), Carleton University, Chair - International Climate Science Coalition, Ottawa, Ontario
11 - Atholl Sutherland Brown, PhD (Geology, Princeton University), Regional geology, tectonics and mineral deposits, Victoria, British Columbia
12 - Paul Copper, BSc, MSc, PhD, DIC, FRSC, Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University Sudbury, Ontario
13 - Susan Crockford, PhD (Zoology/Evolutionary Biology/Archaeozoology), Adjunct Professor (Anthropology/Faculty of Graduate Studies), University of Victoria, Victoria, British Colombia
14 - Donald W. Farley, P.Eng, M.Eng. (Water Resources Engineering & Hydrology), Gatineau, Quebec
15 - Alex MacMillan, PhD, Economics, Professor, Queen’s School of Business & St. Lawrence College, retired, Kingston, Ontario
16 - Les McDonald, RP Bio; Senior Impact Assessment Biologist, BC Environmental Protection (retired); Consulting Aquatic Biologist, Cranbrook, British Columbia
17 - Fred Michel, PhD, Director, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
18 - Frank Milne, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Economics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
19 - David Nowell, M.Sc., Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, former chairman of the NATO Meteorological Group, Ottawa, Ontario
20 - Brian Pratt, PhD, Professor of Geology (Sedimentology), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
21 - L. Graham Smith, PhD, Associate Professor in Geography, specialising in Resource Management, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
22 - John K. Sutherland, PhD (Geology), retired, Health Physicist, Fredericton, New Brunswick
23 - Michael Hart, MA, trade and foreign policy, Simon Reisman Chair in Trade Policy, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
24 - Rob Scagel, MSc (forest microclimate specialist), Principal Consultant - Pacific Phytometric Consultants, Surrey, British Columbia

“Many of us agree that there are many environmental and economic issues that require our urgent and immediate attention,” explained ICSC advisor, Carleton University Earth Sciences professor, Dr. Fred Michel in his recently published letter to the editor.  “My concern is that climate alarmists, like Al Gore, are diverting the attention of society away from the real issues with their constant talk about CO2, which is not driving climate change. … As for climate change, we as a society need to continue to adapt to nature rather than trying to change nature to suit us.”

The driver of this truck tried to get this track hoe under the bridge and it didn’t make the 5.3 m clearance.  All the tires in the low boy trailer blew out from the force of the hoe driving down the trailer.

Next down the hill on this highway is a truss bridge across the Peace River.  This truck driver was bound and determined to have me queing up for a ferry all summer.  Fortunately he didn’t make it.

OLD ABANDONED RECOVERY BOILER

During a startup of a Recovery Boiler at International Paper’s Vicksburg Linerboard Mill in Mississippi, after the annual outage, water entered the furnace proper causing a smelt water explosion which killed one person and injured 17.  Four of the injured are in critical condition in the Augusta, Georgia burn unit.

My guess is they worked on the NCG (waste gas) system and it was full of water prior to startup.  An incident like that occured at a Recovery Boiler in Brazil a number of years ago.

Chaiten Volcano has erupted in Chile.

Heavy Snow and then finally spring arrives.  From ‘The Globe’ discussing the flooding in New Brunswick. …

The water is projected to stay around 8.6 metres on Friday, the height it reached back in 1973 when parts of the capital’s downtown were awash.

This escaped my attention.  I almost moved to a location just across from Greenville in 1998.  From the USA Today Story …

The muddy Mississippi is at levels not seen in more than three decades, putting hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland under water. It’s impossible to gauge overall agricultural losses at this point, federal and state officials say, but most agree the cost will be expensive and the damage extensive.

I have been so wrong on Natural Gas.  That stuff that used to get in the way and get burned off at the well like so many aspen trees in a stand of pine (another story idea in the prose!).  Where do I start.  Even at $10 in Chicago the only LNG coming in is from Trinidad and Tobago, and probably best of all during the cold but ‘not record cold’ of last winter and record drilling in the US for gas, the excess storage was all used up (click on image for better resolution) and we are back to the 5 year average.

I never did pretend to be an Analyst however (like that guy at Amaranth), so we’ll leave it to ‘Analyst’ at ‘Oil and Gas Blog’ to post the accelerating interest in Arctic Gas.

Salt Lake City, Utah – April 14, 2008 – Apex Resources Group, Inc. (OTC BB:APXR) Announces Two Of The World’s Biggest Oil Companies, British Petroleum And ConocoPhillips, Joined Forces To Spend Billions To Build Alaska Pipeline.

Combine the ‘Supply and Demand Story’ with a strong La Nina entering into a Solar Minimum, its definately not going to be a storage conserving winter coming up.

OK, I had to leave the other word out of there, somebody might actually be reading this!  Somebody from a Humane Society or Humane Rights Commission so we have to behave like we are in Burma thanks to their efforts.

Anyway SDA needs your help with our situation and you can do that HERE (here).

George Soros was on Bloomberg this weekend talking about his satisfaction that the destructive side of the Republican Party was defeated this year and therefore he is no longer as engaged with the Democratic Party during this election cycle.  He has endorsed Obama but is comfortable with Hillary.  On Bloomberg, Judy Woodruff also discusses his new book, ‘The New Paradigm for Financial Markets’ and his view of the financial crisis they are in.

The video on Bloomberg with Judy Woodruff can be found here and I’ve posted an interview with him by Google CEO, Eric Schmidt where they discuss his last book, ‘The Age of Fallibility’, and many other issues including the fallacy of ‘The War on Terror’.

In contrast to George Soros’ ‘mixed economy’ message in his new book of ‘more control’ and ‘better management’, I have posted a ‘lecture series’ by the Mises Institute on Central Banking (Fiat Currency, Central Banking) in the ‘Pages’ section.