Posted on 08/28/2007 3:41:39 AM PDT by rellimpank
The recent discovery by a retired businessman and climate kibitzer named Stephen McIntyre that 1934--and not 1998 or 2006--was the hottest year on record in the U.S. could not have been better timed. August is the month when temperatures are high and the news cycle is slow, leading, inevitably, to profound meditations on global warming. Newsweek performed its journalistic duty two weeks ago with an exposé on what it calls the global warming "denial machine." I hereby perform mine with a denier's confession
I confess: I am prepared to acknowledge that Mr. McIntyre's discovery amounts to what a New York Times reporter calls a "statistically meaningless" rearrangement of data.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
I thought it was very interesting that we set another record the other day here in Atlanta. What was interesting was that it was not going to set the record and would have broken the streak, but suddenly in the afternoon, the temp shot up from 100 to 104 tying the record. The recorder is at the airport ie Hartsfield. That made my go hmmmm.
I confess: Denial never solves anything. But neither does sensational and deceptive journalism.
Camel: Has anybody reviewed this “Cool It” here? This is the first time I’ve seen it referenced.
Anywhere. (But of course, Oprah is going to feature it in “her” interviews /sarchasm )
Had a great argument with my wife’s friend last night over this topic, by the time we were through I realized that no amount of logic or fact thrown at these people will make any difference to them at all. Only time will show them the truth, and by then all their passion will be gone so even if we all live long enough to rub their noses into it we will get very little satisfaction.
Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):
Other References:
Antarctic Temperature Trend 1982-2004:
This map (left) shows key areas of Antarctica, including the vast East Antarctic ice sheet. The image on the right shows which areas of the continent's ice are thickening (coloured yellow and red) and thinning (coloured blue). © (Left)British Antarctic Survey, (Right)Science
This was the first time I’d heard about it; time to hit Amazon for a new book, LOL!
When Atlanta was having record hihghs, the NorthEast was having record lows
bump!
The very use of the terms denial and denier to characterize those who might question global warming shows that it has moved from any serious scientific inquiry to become a dogma that cannot be questioned.
I thought it was very interesting that we set another record the other day here in Atlanta. What was interesting was that it was not going to set the record and would have broken the streak, but suddenly in the afternoon, the temp shot up from 100 to 104 tying the record. The recorder is at the airport ie Hartsfield. That made my go hmmmm.
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Yeah, I wonder how many of the readings are of the sort exhibited by the digital signs which are so popular at banks and some other businesses around here. Sometimes two come into view at once and there can be as much as 15 degrees difference in the readings.
Sure, they're mostly in the US, but they're also located where we have embassies and military bases abroad.
To a degree not commonly appreciated the rest of the world depends on the US to keep track of how hot it is getting.
So, you ask, don't they look at their own weather stations even though there are fewer of them?
Sure, they do look at them, but in those vast empty areas of the Earth where there are NO STATIONS, the climatologists simply PROXY IN American data from other areas of similar latitude and average rainfall.
Yup, watch the word "PROXY" ~ that's well over half the world in every climatological model. Might even be 90% ~ but I'd have to do a line by line review of the source code.
If American weather stations are screwy, then that makes the whole world screwy.
If you’re interested in how the placement of thermometers in urban areas might be skewing the data used by the Man-Made-Up Global Warming crowd, check out Steve McIntyre’s blog here: http://www.climateaudit.com.
There’s a project conducted by volunteers dedicated to auditing the thermometer placement. They were never placed to get a general temperature reading; people originally just needed to know what the temp was at the airport for areonautic purposes. Those data have been “repurposed” and handily show “global” warming. Here is the guy who blogs on this: http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts
Another dirty little secret of the AGW crowd. What other surprises await us? Will someone reverse engineer the source code that predicts catastrophes and explain it? Does the general public even hear the side of the “deniers”?
This is how we know GW is a hoax.
“no amount of logic or fact thrown at these (liberal, global warming) people will make any difference to them at all.”
Doesn’t one active FR poster have a tagline that says something like “Don’t bother trying to use logic and fact to move someone from a position he has reached by ignoring logic and fact”?
If they do have that tagline then they are 100% correct.
Never attempt to use logic and reason to dislodge a person from a position they have achieved via pure emotion.
The real threat of the anthropogenic GW (AGW) crowd is NOT their data; it’s the emotional impact of the “wrapper” in which they package it. They’re not “logic-ing” people into belief in thier position; they’re creating a sense of fear and insecurity, then offering direct action (like changing lightbulbs or buying a hybrid car) as a relief valve.
This is no different from any other snake oil sales gimmick. I make you afraid of XYZ, then show you something that, if you believe my very convincing “demonstration”, actually “cures” XYZ. You hand me the money; I give you the bottle of flavored water, and we both go home happy. XYZ never materializes, and you live the rest of your life believing your money was well-wpent, and that my flavored water was the only reason XYZ didn’t kill you.
AGW crowd rhetoric is all right about at that level.
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