Posted on 06/27/2006 8:14:37 AM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
Today's media and tomorrow's will showcase long-faced scholars who dare not let you run out of things to worry about as they herald the onset of a potentially cataclysmic menace called "global warming."
And if you haven't heard, you will, this weekend, that our fragile planet is overheating. Congress knew no more about the future than you do, so the congress designated our national academy of sciences to tell them what they should tell us about global warming, and I have seen their report and here it comes. Your planet is hotter than it has been in 400 years. Maybe longer. We can't know because weather records are imprecise that far back. We have only tree rings and coral and cave deposits and glacier paintings to go on. The hundred and fifty-five page report to congress from the national academy of science affirms -- and I did not say CONfirms -- it guesses that planet Earth is running a fever and that we are to blame for most of it. The carbon dioxide and methane present in our atmosphere we put there. We, with all of our industry and cars and mischief; we have added during the 20th century approximately ONE degree of warmth. Now does this imply that we have allowed ourselves to become clinically anxious about a false alarm? Yes.
Indeed, the report to congress says, and I quote: "The threat is not severe enough to warrant any new pollution controls." End quote. Promoters of the doomsday movies are purposely paranoid. Let me check something. Excuse me just a second here. Yep. Yep. The real world out my window is still there.
Link to listen here: mms://abcrad.wmod.llnwd.net/a49/external/0102cABAAHQAAAAcDle6yKhvE1c0LnEJnNwFajD8QD92LOnSD/harvey/pm/harveypm06222006.wma
Old Wind Bag
What a shock, all the other media reports I heard never mentioned this.
Try reading the article before posting, idiot.
It is always great to hear "the rest of the story".
I did. He is still an Old Wind Bag.
Sounds like somebody didn't get to have his rich choclatey Ovaltine this morning...
Please add me to your list. Donkey shin.
I don't consider the earth a bipartsan issue. we can't give the democrats such a big issue. they destroy the earth and then complain. duh, we all know that hairspray and chemicals are bad for the earth and our bodies. duh, diseases increased with industrialization. we don't need to be preached to by hypocrites, we need to listen to this side of the story:
Ezekiel 34:17-18. As for you, my flock... Is it not enough for you to feed on good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?
Isaiah 24:4-6. The earth dries up and withers, the world languished and withers, the exalted of the earth languish. The earth lies under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt.
Jer. 2:7. I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and you made my inheritance detestable.
James 5:5. You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
Revelation 11:18. The nations were angry and your wrath has come. The time has come for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great - and for destroying those who destroy the earth.
Global warming is a bunch of over-hyped junk science. Pandering to such nonsense is ignorant. The only fact is we have some very moderate warming over the last 100 years (0.6 degrees). The computer models are run by a bunch of fear-mongering socialists trying to scare the public into buying into some global government scheme. The Democrats can have that issue.
Paul is a wordsmith of the highest degree...just because YOU don't like him doesn't mean he should not be on radio...
Just get a snack or go to the bathroom when he comes on....
Sorry, we can't all be like you.....of course if we were, we would have no cars, homes, telephones, running water, medicine, fruits, cattle, chickens, computers, protection from dictators, and the list goes on......
So, please be thankful that there is variety among people....
No, I guess they'd rather listen to mindless idiots in Congress and a REPUBLICAN (?) President that says "global warming is a serious problem" and that illegals spreading like locusts across the country is a good thing and should be rewarded.
"I don't consider the earth a bipartsan issue. we can't give the democrats such a big issue. they destroy the earth and then complain. duh, we all know that hairspray and chemicals are bad for the earth and our bodies. duh, diseases increased with industrialization. we don't need to be preached to by hypocrites, we need to listen to this side of the story: "
Not all chemicals are bad for the earth and our bodies.
Actually, life expectancy during the industrial age has dramatically increased over that during previous ages.
Yes. I'm 38.
A steadfast conservative radio commentator exposes "global warming" as nonsense and most of what he gets here is derision.
I like listening to him, and I'm 48. His "Rest of the Story" yesterday about George Patton was pretty good.
Yes.
And you would be well advised to get a copy of his speech, "No self-discipline, no self-government."
The first time I heard it, I sent a copy to every member of Congress.
It is a powerful indictment of nanny-state government and liberal policies.
life expectancy has increased due to technological increases. yes, we have the capacity to beat teh diseases that have occurred, but it's sort of a fact that cancer, heart disease, etc. has increased over the years. luckily, so have our medical advances. sorry, i learned all of this in med school.
I'm not saying we caused global shifts. My point isn't even about global warming per se, but the environment in general. the democrats think they are the only ones who care about the environment. sorry if i didn't make that clear. we do impact teh environment, and we do care.
I'm not saying we caused global shifts. My point isn't even about global warming per se, but the environment in general. the democrats think they are the only ones who care about the environment. sorry if i didn't make that clear. we do impact the environment, and we do care.
IMO if you live long enough you will some form of cancer.
Yeah, if you live past 38, your chance of getting cancer and heart disease increase. LOL!
As you can see, it's not just old people that like him. I'm about sixty years off of your age limit of 85, and I love the guy's broadcasts. He's a veteran of radio, and the fact that he is still on and still broadcasting is incredible; he's a link between the past and the present.
"...but it's sort of a fact that cancer, heart disease, etc. has increased over the years. luckily, so have our medical advances. sorry, i learned all of this in med school."
Don't even bother figuring out that longer lives lead to long term illnesses increasing in frequency or that medical advances allowed for better detection of diseases that went previously undetected. Just keep deriding modernization.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Holy cow! A 145 year old FReeper! It must have been amazing living when the earth was covered in ice!
John Daly was excellent at poking holes into global warming hype right up to the day he died.
Thank you!
Or perhaps they are diseases of older age and people are living longer so the amount goes up.
Other planets in the solar system are getting warmer also.
What a shock, all the other media reports I heard never mentioned this.
If that's an exact quote, it's not in the report. Here's the report:
Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years
I searched the book for occurrences of "severe", "threat", and "warrant". There are six occurrences of "severe", none of "threat", none of "warrant". There are three occurrences of "pollution". None of the occurrences match this sentence, even remotely.
I then tried an interesting exercise. I searched Google News with the three separate words "threat", "severe", and "warrant". This sentence occurred repeatedly:
"But the Bush administration has maintained that the threat from global warming is not severe enough to warrant new pollution controls that the White House says would have cost 5 million Americans their jobs." (I think all of media sources are publishing the same AP article which contains this sentence or slight variations of it.)
I believe that this indicates it is plausible that Mr. Harvey confused what the report says with the content of articles about the report.
"diseases increased with industrialization."
Not so; except for a few rather exotic strains of auto-immune conditions, the industrial revolution brought about an epidemic of diagnosis, not an epidemic of disease.
The human lifespan is increasing with every passing year which gives us longer to worry about our remaining years.
Life expectancy has increased largely due to improved sanitation and clean drinking water--not a particularly "high-tech" solution. The increase in cancer and heart disease are due to two factors---1)lifestyle (individual choices) and 2) WE'RE LIVING LONGER due to the improved sanitation and drinking water, so we're more likely to develop those diseases.
In the bad old days, you'd have been dead from one or the other disease by or before age 45. Few people develop heart disease or cancer at younger ages.
"You know I try to live but the tenant;"
Well, before you kill your renter, may I assume that what you meant to say was, "I try to live by the tenet...?"
Great statement. It also brought about new technologies and medicines to combat these 'new' diseases.
And as the average life span increases we now are getting diseases that previous generations didn't live long enough to get. We used to die of TB, small pox, yellow fever, the common flu, malaria, dysentery, poor nutrition and accidents.
I've been listening to him since I was in my teens, and I'm almost 38 (a moment of pause, for those in Rio Linda to do the math). I always knew that if Paul was on, and my dad was still in the house, that he was running late for work.
Speaking of global warming and interesting quotes (though slightly off topic), Dennis Miller said in a 2003 standup (The Raw Feed), "Scientists have said that in the last 100 years, the earth's temperature has gone up about 1.8 degrees....uh, am I the only one who finds that remarkably stable? I could go to my hotel room, futz with the thermostat for hours, get it to turn up 1.8 degrees, and couldn't tell the difference.
"But the environmentalists, no, they won't hear of it. They say, 'What about your kids?' I tell em, I love them. Hope they live to be 100. That's another 1.8.
'Well, what about your kids' kids?' 3.6. I'll just tell em we moved to Arizona.
'Well, what about your kids' kids' kids' kids' kids' kids?' I'M NEVER GONNA MEET 'EM! I'd like to say that they matter, but they don't! I'm sure my ancestors didn't give a damn about me either! Yeah, I can see them saying, 'Gee, shall we use a bar-b-q, or should we plan for Dennis' arrival in the mid twentieth century?'
Sorry, but it appears, according to another post here, that this is a mistake. This quote, apparently, is NOT IN THAT REPORT. Shame on Mr. Harvey for letting that slip in.
Hard to believe any one of these passages has anything to do with our dominance over this planet. Bet they are metaphor for principles in the word.
JAT
Badaa BING!!!!
He may be a talented wordsmith, but you could mail him any urban legend and he'll read it on the air in that sonorous voice of his.
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