[Semper Paratus]

Senste is holding Global Warnming hearings in DC this July.
Dan Rather can do a breathless stand up on the mall at high noon.

[SunStar]

1975 Newsweek article on "Global Cooling" :-)

[My Identity]

Kyoto Paradox I:
Climate is an extremely complex, chaotic, coupled, non-linear, time-dependent system
with massive, external, naturally-occuring inputs and wide variability in measurables.
Therefore,
To say we can control it by tweaking a small set of factors is ridiculous on its face.

Kyoto Paradox II:
Climate is an extremely complex, chaotic, coupled, non-linear, time-dependent system
with massive, external, naturally-occuring inputs and wide variability in measurables.
Therefore,
You can no more successfully predict the outcome of doing something than you can of
not doing something. In other words, the impact of trying to "fix" a climate "problem"
is as unpredictable as the impact of ignoring it.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

the journalistic organ that proudly proclaims its integrity and completeness with the assertion it contains "All The News That Is Fit To Print" printed only half the story . . . - the scary, unsubstantiated half.

And that is the ultimate "Dog Bites Man" story. The business model of commercial journalism is to position journalism--thus its customers as well--as serious and significant. That's "sizzle" which they sell, but the "steak" which they actually deliver is "Man Bites Dog" (superficial) and "Drinking Water May Be Contaminated" (scary) stories.

If half the propaganda deployed in favor of the Kyoto treaty had been deployed against Hitler in the early/mid 1930s, "the Unnecessary War" (as Churchill syled it) would have been prevented. Likewise for Osamma bin Laden and the WTC/Pentagon disaster.

The reason that consistently happens is that it's so much easier--and safer--to attack home-grown conservatives than it is to depart from the safety of pack journalism and search out and attack an actual villain.

[William Tell]

I encourage anyone who subscribes to the New York Times to cancel immediately. The idea of paying good money to journalist to have them lie to you and destroy what you hold dear is unbelievable to me. Please, someone tell me that they now understand and will get on the correct path.

[denydenydeny]

Their numbers - which they sent to the Times, but which the Times has yet to report - are that temperatures have risen by 4.16 degrees Fahrenheit at Barrow, 2.28 degrees F at Nome, 2.26 degrees F at Anchorage, and 1.07 degrees F at Fairbanks.

I see--they just added some of these numbers up to get "a 7 degree temperature increase in Alaska."

[editor-surveyor]

Here we are on June 20, when a normal temperature on a sunny day here would be about 100 degrees, and the high today was 72. - The geeks on the radio were all griping about the 'heat.'

[MissAmericanPie]

This area of Texas had the coolest spring on record, in fact it's been very pleasant until last week, except for the mesquitos.

[nightdriver]

"A bill in the U.S. Senate, authored by James Jeffords, would require use of renewable resources to provide up to 20 percent of the nation's energy."

And just what does Jumpin' Jim plan to use as an energy source that's "renewable?" We don't renew the sun, so it can't be solar. We can't make the wind blow, so it can't be wind energy. We can't make it rain, so it can't be hydropower.

It must be that he means we should use wood-fired heat sources as wood is one thing we can renew. Only trouble is, burning wood and other cellulose-based fuel puts more CO2 into the atmosphere per heat generated than does burning fossil fuels.

Could it be that Jumpin' Jim is, in reality, so senile that he cannot even reason this out?

[farmfriend]

In no time, though, came a second Times news story, this one on June 13, by Timothy Egan, much like the first: "Alaska, No Longer So Frigid, Starts to Crack and Burn." The lead paragraph proclaimed: "To live in Alaska when the average temperature has risen about seven degrees over the last 30 years means learning to cope with a landscape that can sink, catch fire or break apart in the turn of a season."

The Sacramento Bee just reprinted this opinion cr@p.

[Publius6961]

Ignorant people tend to view the universe through their prism of ignorance, whether they be aboriginies or a controlling twit with 4 degrees.
(Yes, university degrees and ignorance seem to exist in a symbiotic relationship in an apparent exponential fashion)

I would never want to have the world's greatest surgeon fix my plumbing...
Couple a delusion of megalomania with an agenda, and you have the stuff of totalitarianism, and a new improved means of exercising power over others.

Extrapolating climate from 30 years of accurate and comprehensive records is like their trying to determine my cross country route after having backed out of my driveway.

I need to find Mark Twains musings over the length of the Mississippi River. Fits these idiots perfectly...

[Aurelius]

BUMP

[TheEaglehasLanded]

great post, informative and something many freepers remember from school days but hadn't researched. I believe that the term GLOBAL WARMING was started in 1988. SO it's only 14 years old. I bet a nexus lexus search would tell us for sure