Chris Mooney
Posted on 07/06/2012 11:42:23 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Chris Mooney | The Politics of Ice and Fire
The time to act on global warming is clearly now—right now. In a sane world, Congress would immediately take up carbon cap legislation, and President Obama would be giving a big speech on the issue—and pressing Mitt Romney to explain why he flip-flopped into climate skeptic land, moving in precisely the wrong direction on one of the most important issues to afflict humanity.
Moreover, President Obama would recognize this as a smart political move, because the hard-core deniers notwithstanding, public opinion on global warming follows the weather. It always does. Now, with the whole country wondering about the sweltering heat, about the wildfires and the derecho and the destruction, people are more than ready to hear that, yes, this is global warming, and yes, something has to be done about it.
And yet still, it is not happening.
I cannot overemphasize how dramatic a missed opportunity this is—because we know that even against the backdrop of an overall warming trend, the weather is extremely fickle, and so is public opinion. In late 2009, the year of ClimateGate, and then in early 2010 (of “Snowmageddon” fame), public doubts about climate change increased in association with winter weather—and that could happen once again as soon as the end of this year.
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Too funny: Political hack/English major Chris Mooney bemoans the fact that Obama isn't seizing on temporary hot DC weather to push the global warming hoax
Penn and Teller tackle this. It’s priceless:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v4Q9Wv10Ho
I burn my garbage.
Funny thing is .....
Baraq couldn’t pass Cap N Tax even when he had solid majorities in the House and Senate.
Chris Mooney
From another link on freerepublic, the nobel science (physics, 1972) winner - Ivar Gieavaer, had this to say about climate “science”...
As he took the stage for his turn, Gieavar’s (sic) immediate remark was, “I am happy I’m allowed to speak for myself.” He derided the Nobel committees for awarding Al Gore and R.K. Pachauri a peace prize, and called agreement with the evidence of climate change a “religion.” In contrast to Crutzen and Molina, Gieavar (sic) found the measurement of the global average temperature rise of 0.8 degrees over 150 years remarkably unlikely to be accurate, because of the difficulties with precision for such measurements—and small enough not to matter in any case: “What does it mean that the temperature has gone up 0.8 degrees? Probably nothing.” He disagreed that carbon dioxide was involved and showed several charts that asserted, among other things, that climate had even cooled. “I pick and choose when I give this talk just the way the previous speaker picked and chose when he gave his talk,” he added. He finished with a pronouncement: “Is climate change pseudoscience? If I’m going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely.”
Given that he’s a real scientist (quantum physics is science, guessing about temperature and causes is not), I’ll take Gieavaer for $500, Bob.
He looks thweet....
Having lived there....if is full of strange stuff....(people wise.)
Gets the Kids out of the room and hearing distance....when viewing....
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ALERT for much BS and other Leftwing crude language.
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And see the link at post #2....but HEED MY WARNING at post #10!
He likes to use the F word for color the way Limbaugh uses a cigar: Constantly.
I watched the video. Sure on heck of a lot of BS going down.:)
It don't take higher education to spot the faulty construction of the global warming hoax.
It is not higher education is everything you were taught was incorrect. And just about everything they teach nowadays, is incorrect.
In the post modern world, you are smarter if you are uneducated.
It is incorrect to follow the popular agenda (political correctness) if it leads you off a cliff. There is so much incorrectness in the schools today, we would be better off without them.
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