[Paloma_55]

Sure. That would be like someone suggesting that homosexual behavior is deviant at an APA meeting.

It would be politically incorrect.

[neodad]

Joe D'Aleo was a rare voice of dissent this week at the American Meteorological Society's annual meeting in San Antonio.

Were they able to meet with the rest of the city shut down for 2 days due to an ice storm?

[RightWhale]

The correct behavior is to keep mouth shut or visit the Global Warming gulag for a few dozen years, Kamrade.

[Paloma_55]

Several scientists and writers interviewed at the society's conference, which ends on Thursday, stressed that most researchers believe there is little scientific debate about the causes of global warming.

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I bet there is little debate in the Chinese communist party either.

[rhombus]

Just go along... Someone might throw more money our way. Tasty new studies and grants.. just get on board. You wouldn't want your peer reviews to suffer now would you? Heh, heh, heh... Getting hot in here? Now that's man-made warming. Just go along. See you at the next conference, IF you get funding.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

heidi cullen, the global warming nazi at the weather channel has now officially called for all meteorologists that work at the weather channel to be decertified if they don't hop on the global warming bandwagon..can ya believe that?? don't argue with the opposition, just shut them up by whatever means necessary..

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And in that sense, they owe it to their audience to distinguish between solid, peer-reviewed science and junk political controversy. If a meteorologist can't speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn't give them a Seal of Approval.
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the above taken from her blog

http://climate.weather.com/blog/9_11396.html?cm_ven=one_deg_blog&cm_ite=one_deg_commentary&from=one_deg_commentary

[colorado tanker]

Ahem, I hate to spoil the party, but very few of these guys are true climate scientists. The vast majority are weather forecasters. And after what the jihadists are trying to do to Exxon, they're smart enough to keep their heads down and go with the pc flow.

[Ben Mugged]

Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences on Thursday named American scientist Wallace S. Broecker as the 2006 prizewinner in geosciences. Here is a quote from Dr. Broecker:

My lifetime study of Earth's climate system has humbled me. I'm convinced that we have greatly underestimated the complexity of this system. The importance of obscure phenomena, ranging from those that control the size of raindrops to those that control the amount of water pouring into the deep sea from the shelves of the Antarctic continent, makes reliable modeling very difficult, if not impossible.

http://www.carleton.ca/~tpatters/teaching/climatechange/broecker/broecker.html (11 of 13) [02/12/2003 10:05:30] Wallace S. Broecker, "Will Our Ride into the Greenhouse Future be a Smooth One?" GSA Today 5/97

[xcamel]

Solar minimum sunspot cycles really bring out the stupid in otherwise intelligent people.

[MaestroLC]

Weather Channel = Global Warming Propaganda

Oh, and their forecasts suck. Just ask the LA citrus farmers.

[dangus]

Grants only go to those who will endorse the official view. Go figure that the majority of peer-reviewed papers endorse the official view. Who's going to write a paper on an ice berg that isn't melting?

Funny also the inclusion of the press in the statement that a "large majority of researchers and writers" hold a viewpoint. And what kind of researchers? Those who actually study global warming, or those than confess the party line when discussing secondary ecological effects?

Also, when you actually get down to what the statement that the large majority holds, it's pretty much nothing:

Global temperatures rose about 1 degree Farenheit last century, and may rise another 1 to 4 degrees this coming century.

Big whoop. That statement isn't what's driving the hysteria. How many scientists agree with THIS statement:

Anthropogenic global warming will accelerate quickly enough as to create catastrophic occurrences great enough to overwhelm the harm caused by stifling economic growth in the developing world, including the environmental damage caused by the subsequent poverty.

[jtal]

As Al Gore likes to say, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary (or research grant) depends upon him not understanding"

[RoadTest]

Al Gore invented Global Warming.

[vetsvette]

"Global Warming Dissenters Few At US Weather Meeting"

Of course they weren't invited, but we won't talk about that.

[TBP]

Taht's because they've been systematically defunded.

[spunkets]

LOL! I just went to read the story and found this:

It's a bunch of cooling towers and that's steam coming off them! They're trying to convey an image that big energy is trashing the planet with tons of pollution.

Of course no one at the conference can argue that the physical mechanisms identified that do have an effect on Earth's surface temps don't exist. None of them can argue that the effect can be significant also. Even by 2060, when a predicted 550ppmv CO₂, ~0.34% increase in the Earth's atmospheric energy content and a ~1^oC temp increase occurs.

Global warming is a con job perpetrated by the leaftists to grab control of the energy supply and it's use.

[TBP]

The fact is that the Earth has been going through warming adn cooling cycles since it came into being. Evidence indicates that the medieval warming period was warmer than today. It was followed by a cooling period during the Renaissance.

And BTW, the polar ice caps are melting.

On Mars.

[SIDENET]

Agree with the cult of Global Warmism^TM or pay the price!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The fanaticism and close-mindedness of global warmists is totally contrary to the spirit of scientific inquiry.

When people finally realize how over-hyped it is; the alarmists will claim credit for "beating global warming" -- because they convinced everyone to switch from incandescent to florescent light bulbs.

[proudpapa]

Recently in Alaska a park ranger mentioned that Mendenhall glacier (Juneau) has been impacted by global warming for the last 250 years.

Q: In Washington state, the #1 polluter is very famous, won't pay any fines, and is totally uncontrollable...



It's not Microsoft, the federal government or even Boeing...





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