[Carriage Hill]

Calling Algore; stop dancing that AGW climate jig and pick-up the getting-warmer red courtesy phone... your gullible, adoring American Public is waiting.

[ALPAPilot]

The left does science by public opinion polls; and they call us uneducated.

[Carriage Hill]

I guess the thousands frozen and dead in Europe:

http://www.travelpulse.com/at-least-300-dead-as-bitter-winter-plagues-europe.html

and also in the Ukraine:

http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/bitter-winter-ukraine-uses-more-gas-gazprom-gas-shortfalls-in-europe/

would agree that global warming is a real serious problem, Algore.

[animal172]

Could the Amish be behind the AGW hoax? /sar

[equaviator]

What really bugs me about it is that even though it would be a very BAD thing to have this “climate change”, “global warming”, “AGW”, etc. be facts of life on earth, virtually all of the people who believe it is do hope very much that it’s true just because they don’t like being proven wrong. In other words, they don’t mean well. They’re misanthropes who probably wish that “the planet” could be rid of human beings altogether.

[jameslalor]

I’m not surprised. The majority of any public is easily swayed by ecstatic, emotional idolatry. The modern obsession with global warming is little different, functionally, from the pagan inhabitants of Easter Island erecting giant statutes in order to control the weather.

You see, human beings like to feel important. We like to feel as if our every action, our every thought, our slightest whim or fancy, can shape mountains out of the mist and bring great monoliths crashing down. Any fantasy that speaks to the unintentional omnipotence of the human condition is a heady drug, a near siren’s call to today’s narcissistic and self-absorbed human being.

This is how shamans and cult-priests controlled civilizations historically - a gullible peasant population was easily swayed by the false rituals and the magician’s tricks of false prophets and idolaters. Bow down before the Golden Calf, peasant, lest ye be smote.

The modern liberal is little different than the medieval peasant he or she heaps self-righteous scorn upon. They both partake of talismanic logic - trusting unerringly and wholeheartedly to their symbols of faith, never bothering to look for any truth or any divine light behind the robes of the anointed priesthood and never understanding the rituals or symbols prominently displayed by their idols. Only, today their idol is “science” - though they spout heresies like ‘the science is settled’, and you’d be a lucky man indeed if you could find a global warming cultist that could define off the top of his or her head what scientific method actually entails.

I sincerely doubt that many of those global warming supporters have actually read the International Panel on Climate Change reports, and of the handful that may have I doubt you’d find more than a couple that actually understood the methodology or verbiage used in the reports. The first IPCC report predicted a significant rise in temperature in the upper reaches of the atmosphere, where CO2 concentrates and where it is likely to perform any minuscule role it has as a greenhouse gas. However, unfortunately for the cultists, in the predicted time period there was no observed temperature increases in the upper reaches of the atmosphere, where one would expect, yet a temperature increase of twice the predicted rate at surface level - where CO2 would have little if any effect.

Faulty predictions aside, and a willful ignorance of solar output notwithstanding, the most recent IPCC report manages to skirt faulty science and predictive models incapable of prediction with a bit off good old-fashioned prestidigitation: merely find some factor that you KNOW will increase by a set amount over a given time, and then claim that your miraculous new scientific snake oil predicts that the factor will increase by said amount.

In this case, the researchers took established sea-level trends that describe what we’d expect the sea-level to do over the next century based off of existing trends that are almost entirely independent of human industrial activity, lowball said estimates, and then claim that a perfectly normal sea-level rise as predicted by centuries of existing trend must somehow, magically, be the result of man-made climate change. ABRACADABRA! If you can’t create a mathematical model that predicts reality and confirms your theory, just make up a few numbers and hope that no one notices!

So, can I get my multi-million dollar climate research grant now?

[Jagdgewehr]

“A mjority of Americans” meaning those who read the New York Times and watches MSNBC. So, my scientific analysis? Their audience is comprised of gullible dupes by a 2-to-1 margin...at the very least.

[Viking2002]

I'll reasonably attach it to being caused by many things - not the least of which is God's Wrath - but I will NOT hitch my cart to that globalist circle jerk scam Algore has been perpetuating for twenty years. He needs to be sharing a bar of soap with George Soros in whatever prison shower we can finally convict and sentence then both to.

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920

[dbeall]

So this polling group gives computers to poor households and then uses these folks, the least likely people to be able to understand the “global warming” nonsense and then cites their responses among the numbers. Additionally, the article doesn’t say how MANY people were polled. Polls are worthless unless you’re talking about a poll representing at least 10% of the population. Otherwise it’s just opinion. This is not science.

[Carriage Hill]

Ping to this thread.

[wizwor]

When I was in grade school (early 70s), we were taught that glaciers formed the White Mountains of New Hampshire as they descended during an ice age. From that I have always reasoned that climate change is neither unusual nor man made. I have not heard a single person complain about this version of climate change. I only wish I could believe this year’s weather patterns will continue to the end of my life.

[Eleutheria5]

If the winter is hot, it’s global warming. If there’s a blizzard, it’s global warming. If there’s a flood, it’s global warming. If there’s a drought, it’s global warming. If there’s any weather at all, it’s global warming. Everything proves that there’s global warming. All who disagree are in league with the Devil/corporate interests/right wing cabal. Now that science is here, we don’t need faith anymore./sarc

[Hot Tabasco]

Global warming is a good thing, I’ve been playing softball here in S.E. Michigan since early March and even played a few times in both January and Feb........

[palmer]

Amazingly there was one small nugget of truth on the radio yesterday where some NOAA guy told Hilary (vapid idiot announcer) Howard of WTOP in DC that global warming does NOT cause more tornadoes.

[Happy Rain]

The Left has totally hijacked the Ad Council—literally billions of dollars of our money are being diverted to proselytize socialist notions as if they were based in fact.

The Ad Council is supposed to be nonpartisan and should be investigated and, if necessary, disbanded for being political hacks for the Democrats.

[olezip]

A poll due for release on Wednesday shows that a large majority of Americans believe that this year’s unusually warm winter, last year’s blistering summer and some other weather disasters were probably made worse by global warming.

Was it this same group of Americans that elected Obama?

The man in the street presents interesting connections; just listen to Rev. Wright, or Hillary Clinton. They demonstrate amazing logic to connect the dots for you.

[who knows what evil?]

I am sooooooo tired of this global warming/climate change BS...does any one even notice that when a 'record high' is established; the record that is broken is often from the 1920's or 1930's...

What will they blame it on as the east coast (who oversees all) enters a cool and rainy period thru early May.

[Evil Slayer]

There will be great earthquakes in various places (Matt. 24:7; Rev. 6:12; 16:18-20). The sea and waves will roar because of these earthquakes and cause severe panic among millions of people (Luke 21:25). There will also be cosmic signs and disasters that will strike the world from outer space. Among these will be meteor showers and asteroids that will cause devastation on earth (Rev. 6:13; 8:8-9). Furthermore, there will be unequalled heat waves and hailstorms (Rev. 16:8-9,21).

When the signs that indicate the tribulation period only begin to become evident (Luke 21:28), we must lift up our heads because our redemption draws near.

[wolfcreek]

Since they don’t believe in a higher power, they have to blame someone.

[1_Rain_Drop]

My opinion. The extreme weather started the moment obama stepped foot into the white hut. Get him out of there and all will be well again.

The weather this year is the same as it was two years ago. Nothing has changed. Same pattern. One year we had 7 feet of snow, the next year, 7 feet of water. no biggie. Stuff like this happened in the past also when there were no snowplows or generators. We have it easy in this century.

[StAnDeliver]

LOL ... 41% of those polled really don't give a sh!t.

3. The weather or changes in the weather really do not matter to me.
Strongly agree	6
Somewhat agree	15
Neither agree nor disagree	20