Dick Durbin Repeals Social Science

Dick Durbin, Tuesday: “We can’t drill our way to lower prices.”

The only conceivable way to reduce oil prices is to drill more oil, Dick. The Democrat plan to drill less oil is why prices are high today. The continuing Democrat plan to drill less oil is why oil prices will be higher tomorrow. Demand in the US and the ROW will absolutely not be satisfied with other than oil.

Democrats offer us solar cells and wind turbines with a straight face; the same face with which they deny social science, history, and human nature, (and surface station history not to mention satellite history), when their lips move. Solar cells and wind turbines are inefficient and unreliable, wherever installed, including Arizona. Conventional power sources are not replaced, nor will they be duplicated. Ethanol from corn is dead (and check out this year’s corn planting). Food, goods, and humans are not transported by wind turbine or by solar cell; nor is it likely they will ever be.

As this present Al Gore Solar Minimum gains momentum, world demand for oil can only increase. Or if the Al Gore Solar Minimum doesn’t gain momentum.

Democrat (collectivist) self-license with respect to social science and history continues to be pandemic. Economics is the perennial, preferred victim. The results consistently mean mortal disaster for humankind; whether it be in the old Soviet Union, Cambodia, Red China, North Korea, or a multitude of other circumstances.

The trademark, the calling card, of collectivists is the lie. Anthropogenic global warming has NEVER been observed.

“We can’t drill our way to lower prices,” another lie, and case in point.

Dems: No More Oil

Oil, thou shalt not have.

This from Democrats, who also blame “Big Oil” for not drilling enough.

Democrats, Greenies, and Closet Collectivist Republicans: If you BLOCK “Big Oil” from drilling, than you shall not have much oil.

What could be simpler?

You shall have solar cells in Arizona (and Arizonans say you can have ‘em).

ROFLMAO.

(The Bakken formation, in North Dakota, has as much recoverable oil as all of Saudi Arabia; I don’t believe it is included in the either outdated or deliberately understated “estimates,” below).

(Cal Thomas’s title is utterly inane; otherwise it would appear here).

. . In addition to the sinking value of the dollar, here is the main problem: According to the Department of Energy, U.S. oil production has fallen approximately 40 percent since 1985, while the consumption of oil has grown by more than 30 percent.

According to government estimates, there is enough oil in areas accessible to America — 112 billion barrels — to power more than 60 million cars for 60 years. The Outer Continental Shelf alone contains an estimated 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Had President Clinton not vetoed exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in 1995, when oil was $19 a barrel, America would currently be receiving more than 1 million barrels a day domestically, all of it taken by better technology than existed more than 30 years ago. That was when the Alaskan pipeline was built despite protests from environmentalists who claimed it would destroy the caribou. It didn’t, but the environmentalists are back with the same discredited arguments. Because most of the oil remains “off-limits,” we are becoming more dependent on foreign oil. .

Al Gore’s Technology, For You - Not Arizona

According to this source (below), not Al Gore, solar power for Arizona is still in the future (background: A Night with Al Gore).

In Arizona, where daily peak power demand typically coincides precisely with expected solar cell output, less than 1% of electric power is solar. Supplemental power from solar cells would appear to be perfectly matched, timing-wise, with Arizona’s needs, almost year around. Arizonans raise the price of energy during peak demand. Is it “big oil” which blocks solar power in Arizona?

Compressed air seems to be a leading long-term bet for storing energy from solar cells. The requirement to be able to store the energy output appears to be a critical consideration, even in Arizona. Efficiency of compressed air energy storage would appear to be around 65%, but I think we should expect this number may be optimistic (Wikipedia source).

Perhaps the biggest reason Arizonans don’t use more than a trickle of solar power from direct conversion is called “shadow” or “intermittency;” it has nothing to do with “big oil.”

But don’t let that discourage you from putting our nation’s energy egg in the Arizona solar cell basket, Al Gore. If food for the world means nothing to you (Al Gore’s Ethanol From Corn), then why should energy for the world?

Arizona works to become the solar-power ‘Saudi Arabia’
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 14:26. By TOM BEAL, Arizona Daily Star science and technology western news
TUCSON, Ariz. — tThere is a shadow over the bright future of solar power in Arizona, cast by the clouds that blanket metropolitan areas when demand for electricity is greatest.

They call the problem “intermittency,” and it could have its biggest impact midafternoon in midsummer, when everyone is running air conditioners to counter the heat.

Whether those solar panels are part of a big power plant or distributed across the rooftops of Phoenix and Tucson, they will lose their power source just when the electric grid needs it most.

If Arizona is to become “the Saudi Arabia of solar energy,” it needs to find ways to keep the electrons flowing through those summer storms and during the total lack of sunshine at night.

Scientists say that planners simply need to expand their vision of what constitutes a storage battery to include lakes, caverns, tanks of heated liquid and fleets of parked electric cars.

In the future, Arizonans might use solar power when it's not in demand to compress air and store it underground, releasing it to spin turbines when the clouds come by.

Other solutions include fleets of privately owned electric cars whose batteries can be plugged into the electric grid or bi- level lakes where water is pumped uphill when power is plentiful and run downhill through turbines during peak demand.

Add to that the proven solar technology of solar troughs, which use mirrors to focus the sun's warming rays on liquid-filled pipes that in turn heat and vaporize gases that power turbines.

Scientists say a mix of these strategies will be needed if solar is to become a dependable solution to the urgent need to find power sources that don't give off greenhouse gases.

The solutions are a few years off, but so is the problem. Arizona's utilities aren't generating vast amounts of power from renewable sources right now because of solar's other impediment — high cost.

Still, the intermittency of renewable power sources is already a technological problem, said Tucson Electric Power spokesman Joe Salkowski.

At its Springerville power plant, where coal is burned to produce 760 megawatts of power, TEP adds another 4.6 megawatts to the same transmission lines from a photovoltaic array.

Olgierd Palusinski, of the University of Arizona's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, is working on a cure for the hiccups, and perhaps for the entire problem.

Working with researchers from Arizona State University and the University of California-Irvine, Palusinski is electro-plating metals into the extremely small pores of a non-conductive membrane, creating a storage battery that doesn't need the wet chemistry of standard ones. It simply stores electrons.

If it works, it will be more efficient, smaller, less costly and longer lasting than a standard battery, he said. An array of the devices could store enough electrons to provide 24-hour power from solar, he said.

Ben Sternberg, a professor in the UA Department of Mining and Geological Engineering, proposes a survey of underground caverns where compressed air can be stored for days before its pressure is released to spin turbines.

Tom Hansen, a vice president for research at TEP, said the anticipated phenomenon of power loss at peak demand during Arizona's monsoon season is one of the biggest impediments to growth in solar generation. His company, along with other Arizona utilities, has been ordered by the Arizona Corporation Commission to generate 15 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2025.

Solar is the best bet for meeting that goal, he said, and for supplying even larger levels of power in the years to come, as oil and gas supplies dwindle, and coal falls into disfavor as an energy generator.

The Arizona Corporation Commission knew of the intermittency problem when it ordered Arizona's utilities to meet the 2025 goal, said Commissioner Bill Mundell, but dismissed the utilities' argument that it would keep them from meeting the goal. He is betting that technology will solve the problem well before the goal is met, and he predicts that, by that time, solar will also be a cheaper source of energy than others. The price of oil and gas is going up, he said, and some sort of carbon tax on coal burning is inevitable.

The basic technology for capturing sunlight for electricity is good and increasingly reliable, Hansen said.

TEP's array of photovoltaic panels near its coal-fired plants in Springerville has been generating electricity for six years and TEP has had to replace only 150 of the 34,000 modules in that time. It costs the utility $5,000 to $10,000 a year to operate the array, Hansen said, and most of that cost is for cutting the grass.

Wind turbines are already competitive with natural gas for generating electricity, said Mundell, but the state has very few areas with sufficient, consistent wind. He said solar is the future.

Contact reporter Tom Beal at tbeal@azstarnet.com.

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The Pied Piper’s Energy Fairy Tale

While the United States drags its feet on the development of oil resources in North America, it is a fairy tale to imagine that the rest of the world will sell us oil at our preferred price.

But this fairy tale is just a paragraph in the greater, fairy tale anthology of global warming.

Our Pied Piper of toxic carbon insists that anthropogenic carbon dioxide must make Earth uninhabitably warm, in spite of a complete lack of evidence of it; and an entire planetary “history” which demonstrates otherwise, We are led by him in a litany of prohibitively uneconomic and imprudent fixes for the one problem we don’t have. We are wasting our scarce resources, pumping our cash (per Anthony Watts “Your tax dollars at work . .”) not just carbon dioxide, down a rathole.

The problem we and the world do have, is expensive energy. We take no action to amelioriate this situation, however, beyond converting food into inefficient carbon fuel (ethanol from corn), which unfortunate conversion requires heavy government subsidy. We take no action to add more resources to energy production. We take no action to add demonstrated clean and safe nuclear energy, for the last 30 years.

Our Pied Piper of climatologic prediction and corporate intrigue now warns us (”A Night With Al Gore”) that “Big Oil” has been conspiring to interfere with the deployment of solar cells. Is he the same “Pied Piper” that blocks with his every breath the development of domestic energy sources, from virtually every other means except solar cells? By his actions, Al Gore wants energy to be too expensive for you to afford. The less practical the source, the better he likes it. He wants you to change and adapt to a world where humans have little energy. Solar cells are proclaimed economically viable, if we only arrange them in a magical geometric array in the desert. Solar cells have been available for decades; who has been installing them? An Al Gore America would need or have no other means of energy production, according to the newest stanza in his tune. At night, or during a blizzard, or a cloudburst in the desert, there would be no energy. Solar cell energy is available only when you need it least; almost no matter where the solar cell is located. (At night, the solar cell must be located on the opposite side of the world. In the winter, the solar cell must be located in the other hemisphere, on the opposite side of the world). Practically, if you want energy at night, or when there is clouds, you will absolutely require an alternative conventional source of energy. The cost of energy from solar cells realistically includes the cost of the infrastructure and facility for the alternative, required source. Likewise, the cost of the nonexistent giant battery which Al Gore has conjured into to technical reality.

Al Gore is every bit as serious about his magic, 90 mile square of solar cells, as he was about ethanol from corn. The disastrous results threatened by Al Gore and his misguided initiatives just keep growing. But, the only thing new about his plan is the 90 mile square.

How long will Americans listen to the unsubstantial fairy tales of our toxic carbon Pied Piper, and defer from development of real alternatives to non-domestic oil at prices set as if America was unable and unwilling to supply itself?

Al Gore has offered no viable means of producing energy; only the deactivation or removal of conventional sources. His solution and ultimate message is clear and single minded: you will survive adequately to suit him, without energy. Supply of energy to you, whether it is from fossil fuel, nuclear, or hydroelectric means, is making the Earth ill, according to Al Gore.

We must today, finally, stop hearing the Piper’s toxic tune. We must commit ourselves to provide realistic energy sources for the future of our children. With abundant, cheap, nuclear energy now proven safe, long range alternatives like gassified coal, and even hydrogen become practical, economically and logistically. We must find and safely extract conventional fuels as we develop real, long-term alternatives. Until we do, our economy will suffer commensurately to the price of oil. We will be hostages.

Let’s stop listening to the tune, regain our senses, and make energy inexpensive and abundant again in America.

Dems Ramrod Oil to $123 per Barrel

Angling to garner support for Al Gore’s GIANT Photovoltaic Cell and Ethanol From Cadavers 1st Class State Hero project, Dems have successfully resisted new on-shore exploration, drilling, and development of off-shore oil and energy resources in the United States. Oil supply is shrinking fast, in comparison to the rapidly growing demand around the world. “High prices are easily blamed on Big Oil,” said Al Gore. “Just like low oil prices; or any price of oil, at all.”

But it is the Democrat, Progressive, and Closet Collectivist Republican forces which really control oil prices, by strangling supply from the vast sources of oil inside and around the United States.

“Our goal is not only high oil prices,” stated Al Gore, on this momentous occasion today. “We fully expect to force electricity prices through the 110th story roof, too. We will continue to block nukes, hydroelectric projects, refiners, any possible supply of energy that we cannot completely control. (editor’s note: That is, any supply of energy that makes sense). And, don’t even think about buying natural gas. You can’t afford that, either.”

“The human population of the world can starve, fine. Above all, we want to make sure Earth doesn’t wear a frown, as we see it.”

Gore continued, “We will tell Americans what time of the day they can have power, how much they can have, and how much they will pay for it, and they better kowtow and salute, or they will encounter up close and personal all the wonderful accommodations of our new Gulags in Anwar.”

And the World Economy may well collapse (Ban Ki Moon).

The high price of oil is wreaking havoc with transportation costs world-wide. As the world’s currency finds its way “progressively” to Saudi Arabia and Dubai, and into the coffers of Wahabbists and jihadists, Democrats and their Closet Collectivist Republican partners resolutely refuse to permit development of oil resources in North America. Instead, through the arrangements of co-Nobel laureate Jimmy Carter, Red China, Spain, and Cuba drill American oil from the American continental shelf within 45 miles of Florida.

But Dems see great promise in the ruination of the entire world’s economy, not just that of the US.

The Dems have a plan for cheap oil, too. If you sell or burn oil, TO THE ANWAR GULAGS for you. This is the LONG-TERM Dem plan for cheap oil. In Anwar, Dems will teach BIG OIL executives real humanity, and important menial skills. And who controls the price of oil.

High oil prices and high energy prices are definitely the REAL Nobel Prize.

For their next miracle, Dems and Closet Collectivist Republicans will rectify health care. And, “rectify” nearly captures the beauty of it (”rectumize” is suggested as a superior descriptive) $123 per suture, TOTAL COST, after treatment or euthanasia from resulting infections, is the government goal.

Inelasticy of Supply: Dem talking-point and state policy platform. You cannot get what you want. You can only get what you don’t want. Like solar power at noon.

Al Gore’s New Invention

The GIANT Photovoltaic Cell!

SCHLOTZVILLE - A Night With Al Gore
. . .Gore mentioned a few statistics that drove home the notion that we actually have the capability to be oil free with existing technology. If, he said, we were to build on a 90 mile x 90 mile tract of land in the Southwest a field of solar panels, we would have enough electricity to power the entire United States. So, why don’t we build it? What is stopping us?

Well, he gave one possible answer - the oil companies. Apparently, according to Gore, the oil companies drive up prices reducing supply and then depress them in a telling pattern. As soon as the political will swells to a light boil, the companies reduce prices/increase supply. And we, really the pols that be, fall for it all the time and the political will it is vanquished.

He blamed this on the culture of short-sightedness, quarterly returns, over-night polling numbers and the like. We don’t plan for the future. We don’t understand longevity. And thus, without a change in perspective, we’re pretty much screwed. . .

H/T: Tom Nelson, who bears no responsibility for my rant.

Wow, Al Gore, WHERE DO I START?

Anybody is free, anytime, to put in photovoltaics. They are not efficient. They don’t work at night. They don’t work when under a cloud. Electricity is much cheaper, and reliable, when it comes from a fossil fuel plant, or a nuke.

But in particular, a GIANT photovoltaic can be completely covered by a single rainstorm! A GIANT photovoltaic is in the night, ALL AT THE SAME TIME. When do customers need the most power, Mr. Nobel Prize Winner? Where is your GIANT brain?

What do you have against nuclear power plants, GIANT BRAIN Al Gore? In France, and in the UK, they work GREAT. They are clean, the waste is easily dealt with, and they WORK WELL AT NIGHT.

The Oil Companies, Al Gore, DON’T GIVE ONE DAMN how many photovoltaics you put in. Only a small part of electric power in the United States comes from oil. Small. Infinitesimal. (In edit, 1.6%)

Put in your photovoltaics at your house, OK, GIANT BRAIN Al Gore. Except if you have any, they are brand spanking new, aren’t they? How do they work at night? In a rainstorm? You STILL NEED AN ELECTRIC UTILITY, don’t you, idiot. Maybe you are the guy using oil to make electricity.

Go away, Al Gore, and let us work out our real problem WHICH IS KEEPING WARM DURING THE AL GORE MINIMUM. We don’t need you showing us how to get Nobel Prizes for Ethanol from Corn, a whole other screw-up by you.

Whew.
Also Blogging: Climate Skeptic, Solar Panel County

Sun Flashes Cycle 24 Spot

Will Cycle 24 please come on down? Trained eyes (Anthony Watts) say the polarity is correct (reversed, since below the Sun’s equator). Now, will it stick this time? About 3 or so previous Cycle 24 spots have quickly vanished.

(Photo From Gong)

Growing Twilight Zone Inside James Hansen

Hindsight used to be 20/20, wasn’t it?

Not in the case of Al Gore and his Science Advisor, James Hansen of NASA. Hindsight is unreal.

For James Hansen, and thus for you, the past keeps getting colder; and the present keeps getting hotter! History is an abstraction; a twilight zone, a dimension without temperature, surface stations, or time. A dimension of infinitely flexible hockey sticks, where the mushy puck is your mind. A dimension where toxic carbon dioxide creates heat today, frost yesterday, and confusion tomorrow, all on the same day.

A dimension where the anomaly is the correction, and the correction is the anomaly.

Here is James Hansen’s twilight zone correction factor of temperature; but wait, it is the same as James Hansen’s temperature! Beyond Outer Limits? or standard operating procedure to Al Gore, the IPCC, and the cash-sucking government of the United States.

See also: Does ‘climate change’ mean ‘changing data’?

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Climatology may never remove the stain left by James Hansen. In the twilight zone, even the most obnoxious stains can smell good.

Time Running Out On Corn; Blizzard in S. Dakota

Unfortunately, the scientific forecasts we have received about global warming have been absolutely backwards! The globe is indeed cooling, as even NASA now hints. Instead of hysterical frenzy about carbon dioxide, our resources should have been devoted to storing corn, and grain-based food products.

Only 10% of the crop is in, as of April 28. Normally by now, 35% of the crop is planted.

Purdue (Indiana) says the corn should all be in by about May 1, if we are to expect an optimal crop (apparently Purdue doesn’t consider 24% crop loss much of a problem!) I think it is now after May 1.

The good news: for now, the wheat crop is OK. Soybeans, a planting alternative to corn, are good.

The bad news: Blizzard delivers 4 feet of snow in South Dakota I wonder if the blizzard will move eastward? Why, yes; snowing in Minnesota and Wisconsin, now.

Food gets expensive in cold periods on Earth. Nobody has ever proven the slightest negative impact from carbon dioxide. Al Gore and associates are manufacturing imaginery problems, and ignoring the real ones.

Grain Outlook: Corn Planting Delay Pushes Price Higher

Corn planting progress has been disappointing and is starting to be reflected in an even higher price in the marketplace. The most recent USDA Crop Progress report, released April 28th, showed only 10 percent of the nation’s corn acreage planted compared to the five-year average of 35 percent. Of the biggest corn producing states, Iowa planting was 49 percent behind, Illinois was 30 percent less than normal, and in Minnesota, only 1 percent of the corn had been planted versus the five-year average of 27 percent. While the Eastern Corn Belt appears to be drying out, the Northern Corn Belt remains wet; and more rain is in the forecast.

Time is running out on corn. Although some industry people are showing signs of anxiety, no one seems to be panicking yet. There are two dangers: 1) not enough corn acres will get planted, and 2) corn will be planted too late to produce trend line yield.

In its March 31st Planting Intentions Report, based on a farmer survey, the USDA estimated that 86 million acres of corn would be planted this spring. Traders and industry experts ran the numbers on projected corn demand and came to a consensus agreement that farmers needed to plant at least 89 million acres of corn. Corn price moved up in an attempt to bid more acres into corn. But the weather has not been cooperating.

An analysis conducted this week showed that with projected usage, 89 million acres of corn producing at trend line yield of about 155 bushels per acre would give a barely adequate corn supply. Price would likely remain in the $6 range. If 90 million acres are planted and harvested at trend line yield, corn stocks would build enough to bring corn price down into the $5 range. For both models, below trend line yields resulted in higher corn price. If corn acres planted fall below 89 million acres, even with trend line yield, corn price would move up to a level that would ration the available supply. No attempt was made to analyze the effect of unfavorable weather during the growing season.

The conclusions here in early May are 89 to 90 million acres of corn need to be planted, and soon, to optimize the crop’s yield potential. Then, we will need good weather conditions throughout the growing season to produce trend line yield. With the 2007/08 carryover supply tightening, there is no cushion to fall back on.

Purpose Of Global Warming

Yes, Global Warming has a purpose. If Global Warming has a cause, though, carbon dioxide is not it.

Top scientists and meteorologists, including Richard Lindzen can find no warming since 1995; for some scientists, 1998 was the start.  Carbon dioxide has risen continuously in the interrim. Now NASA finds that for the next decade and more, warming is out of the forecast, suddenly; while carbon dioxide will continue to increase. What happened to those expensive computer models?

The obvious and practically complete lack of causation of global warming by carbon dioxide is not new. Polar ice core samples show only that carbon dioxide follows (lags) global temperature far into Earth’s past.  This is in perfect contradiction to Al Gore’s polemic.  And in perfect contradiction to his computer models of climate.  Why is this information ignored?

No good reason. Observe that even though global cooling is now well established and predominant in the long range forecast, anthropogenic carbon dioxide is still a mysterious, evil force; and no human sacrifice in the control of carbon dioxide is too extreme or severe.  Even as Earth gets cold.

But the real purpose of seemingly hysterical global warming alarmism is to control you; not carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is only a means to the end of of taking control of you, by taking control of energy. Carbon credit sales are a mere sideshow, probably a ruse. Like collectivists used oil supply as an excuse to institutionalize ridiculously inefficient ethanol from corn, whatever its impact on food availability, anthropogenic carbon dioxide is now a sinister mantra, and an excuse, to take progressively greater control of you, by regulation of energy.  No matter the economic paralysis which will result; and no matter how cold it gets.

Setting aside the propensity of collectivists to control populations, never for the good: high energy prices, and the limited availability of energy, whether nuclear, or from fossil fuels,  poses a terrific threat to humanity. Earth may get really cold; and perhaps sooner rather than later.  History will repeat.  Al Gore and his co-conspirators want to reduce the supply of energy; and make what remains far more expensive.   This is far more foolish than converting food into energy deficient gasoline. 

NASA Says Climate Shifting to Cooler Temperatures

Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:33 AM

By: Phil Brennan

The allegedly warming earth is in for about 30 years of cooling according to NASA, one of the leading global warming theory advocates.

NASA has confirmed that a developing natural climate pattern will likely result in much colder temperatures, according to Marc Shepherd, writing in the April 30 American Thinker. He adds that NASA was also quick to point out that such natural phenomena should not confuse the issue of manmade greenhouse gas induced global warming which apparently will be going on behind the scenes while our teeth are chattering from a decade and a half long cold spell.

“A cool-water anomaly known as La Niña occupied the tropical Pacific Ocean throughout 2007 and early 2008. In April 2008, scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that while the La Niña was weakening, the Pacific decadal Oscillation – a larger-scale, Slower-cycling ocean pattern – had shifted to its cool phase.”

Notes Shepherd “This shift in the PDO, which could last for 20 or 30 years, can have significant implications for global climate, affecting Pacific and Atlantic hurricane activity, droughts and flooding around the Pacific basin, the productivity of marine ecosystems and global land temperature patterns.”

And the greatest impact here in the states, he adds, will likely be on west Coast residents, particularly growers.

Warns meteorologist Anthony Watts: “Look out California agriculture. The wine industry, fruits and nut growers will be hit with a shorter growing season and more threats of frost, among other things.”

Watts cites two recent reports of frost-induced crop devastation – an apple orchard in Paradise and wine grapes in Nevada County. He also offers a brief history of last century’s PDO phase shifts, and warns that California’s agriculture, which experienced “unprecedented growth” during the past warm phase, may now be in serious trouble as things cool down:

In 1905, PDO switched to a warm phase, in 1946, PDO switched to a cool phase, and in 1977, PDO switched to a warm phase again.

Notes Shepherd “Recently lower global temps, likely caused by the late start of Solar Cycle 24, already have some greenhouse gassers nervous - particularly amid speculation of a possible impending ‘little ice age.’

“But surely,” he says, “a 30 year protracted naturally-explainable cooling period concurrent with rising atmospheric CO2 levels would forever cool the public’s receptiveness to global warming alarmism. No problem – our ever panicking friends at NASA have that angle covered, too.”

Says NASA: “Natural, large-scale climate patterns like the PDO and El Niño-La Niña are superimposed on global warming caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases and landscape changes like deforestation. According to Josh Willis, JPL oceanographer and climate scientist, ‘These natural climate phenomena can sometimes hide global warming caused by human activities. Or they can have the opposite effect of accentuating it.’”

In other words, CO2 is secretly warming the planet. Or not.