Latest Climate Stupidity: Fossil Fuel Air Pollution Has Slowed Down Warming

When pushed, these climate change moonbats can sure be creative. But the latest example is totally amazing.  Warmists were were asked why the earth did not warm for the ten year period from 1998 to 2008. After years of research they figured out an answer. Fossil fuels, specifically coal has been preventing the earth from warming.

Now I know what you are thinking, didn't they say that it was fossil fuels like coal caused global warming?  They sure did, that's what makes this claim so creative.

The lull in global warming from 1998 to 2008 was mainly caused by a sharp rise in China's coal use, a study suggests.

The absence of a temperature rise over that decade is often used by "climate sceptics" as grounds for denying the existence of man-made global warming.

But the new study, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concludes that smog from the extra coal acted to mask greenhouse warming.

China's coal use doubled 2002-2007, according to US government figures.

Although burning the coal produced more warming carbon dioxide, it also put more tiny sulphate aerosol particles into the atmosphere which cool the planet by reflecting solar energy back into space.

The Lead researcher Robert Kaufmann from Boston University, says it was Fox News who pushed him to come up with this unique solution:

"Two years ago, I gave a talk to a general audience in New Jersey about climate change," he told BBC News.

"And an older gentleman asked me 'why should I believe in this climate change - I was watching Fox News and they said the Earth's temperature hasn't changed in 10 years and has actually gone down'.

"At that stage I wasn't paying much attention to climate change - I'd returned to working on oil markets - so I went back and checked the data and found that was just about right."Mainstream answers

Even before this paper there wasn't much scientific evidence for denying climate change, and now I don't see any credible scientific contradiction”

No contradiction? Allow me to restate their case.  The reason there is no global warming is the air pollution caused by coal which causes global warming.  Got it?  I didn't think so.



Truth is these climate change hoaxers must have a very low opinion of the world population.  If they really believe coal is slowing  down "global warming" then why aren't they calling for us to switch to an all coal economy?

What is really going on here is these hoaxers are really trying to point us toward a global re-distribution of income. The fact that holes keep popping up in their research causes them to come up with new and more desperate excuses for their theory's failings.  This Coal theory is a perfect example.

Chris Christie: Obamacare is Killing the States

Widely reported in the blog world is the fact that the latest projections show that Obamacare will increase the federal deficit, not decrease it as progressives contend. What is not widely reported is that the mandates that accompany the government run-health care plan saddle the states with an oppressive financial burden.

CNS News spoke to conservatives favorite Governor Chris Christie who says that the problem is not only the financial burden but the fact that there is no flexibility in the way states are allowed to provide benefits:

“Listen, I think that there’s got to be a credible plan that’s put forward that deals with entitlements in a serious way," said Christie on the red carpet of MSNBC's White House Correspondents Dinner after-party. "And, you know, I think Congressman [Paul] Ryan’s got a good set of ideas there. Whether it’s the only way to go, we’ll wait and see.

"But I think as a governor what I’m most concerned about is getting us some more flexibility in Medicaid," said Christie. "It’s really kind of drowning the states. And so if his budget gives us more flexibility in Medicaid, I think that would be good. But you know I’m more concerned about what I have to do in New Jersey than I’m concerned about what they’re going to do nationally.”

Christie said the Medicaid mandates under the health care law are the largest concern for New Jersey.

“It’s Medicaid. It’s the biggest thing. I mean, our Medicaid program is $1.4 billion in deficit this year and because of Obamacare we can’t change the level of benefit that we offer because of the mandates that they’ve put on us. And, I think, you know, if we’re going to pay for 50 percent of it, we should have some control over it and the way this administration’s done it is they just want to control all of it. So, that’s the biggest problem for us,” he said.

Beginning in 2014, the health care law requires states to cover every individual under Medicaid whose income is equivalent to 133 percent of the poverty level or less.

 Typical progressive strategy, not only did they kick the "cost can" down the road with their funky accounting such as double counting the medicare cuts, but they also kicked it toward the states, who are stuck with half the cost, but no say in how it's spent.