Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/17/2009 4:29:47 AM PST by markomalley
American astronaut Dr. Jack Schmitt—the last living man to walk on the moon—is the latest scientist to be added to the roster of more than 70 skeptics who will confront the subject of global warming at the second annual International Conference on Climate Change in New York City March 8-10, 2009.
The conference expects to draw 1,000 attendees including private-sector business people, state and federal legislators and officials, policy analysts, media, and students.
Schmitt, who earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in geology, is the twelfth person to walk on the Moon; as of 2008, of the nine living moonwalkers, he and his crewmate Eugene Cernan were the last two to walk there.
“As a geologist, I love Earth observations,” Schmitt says. “But, it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a ‘consensus’ that humans are causing global warming when human experience, geologic data and history, and current cooling can argue otherwise. ‘Consensus,’ as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science. You know as well as I, the ‘global warming scare’ is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes, and decision making ...”
Schmitt will be among more than 70 scientists, economists, public officials, legal experts, and climate specialists calling attention to new research that contradicts claims that Earth’s moderate warming during the twentieth century primarily was man-made and has reached crisis proportions.
Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute, producer of the event along with more than 30 co-sponsors, explained, “At the first conference last March, we proved that the skeptics in the debate over global warming constitute the center or mainstream of the scientific community while alarmists are on the fringe.
“Now in the past nine months, the science has grown even more convincing that global warming is not a crisis. Also suggesting this ‘crisis’ is over are opinion polls in the U.S. and around the globe and political events, including the decisive defeat of ‘cap-and-trade’ legislation in the U.S. Senate last spring. The crisis has been cancelled by sound science and common sense.”
People like Al Gore cannot hold a wooden match to people like this. That anyone listens to Gore is just too silly to try to figure out.
We had “global warming” in the 60’s and the 70’s.
Difference was, back then they called it “acid rain”.
Look it up, research it, then think about it.
You will see EXACTLY the same agenda.
I thought Gene Cernan was the last man to walk on the moon. I believe he is still alive.
This guy should run for senate ! ( A nice alternative to John Glenn )
The fact that Gore went to congress for hearings on globull warming but refused to hear the other side says all I need to hear.
btt
Harrison Hagan “Jack” Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, a former NASA astronaut and a one-term U.S. Senator. He is the twelfth person to walk on the Moon; he and his crewmate Eugene Cernan were the last two to walk there.
Al Gore, like a chipmunk that disappears when it gets cold, has disappeared from the news. It is heartening to see Dr. Schmitt bring "adult supervision" to the global warming hoax. I honestly believe that what he is doing would not have been necessary 20 or 30 years ago when common sense prevailed.
Today after two generations of affirmative action not only have we dumbed down our government offices and schools, but we have politicized science. Why not? With so many dummies in charge who cannot even ask an intelligent question about science, but can destroy our economy with moronic policies. Our nation is on the brink of economic and cultural collapse, IMO.
WHOA! Acid rain WAS real, and it was also reasonably simple to fix... although the fixing of acid rain probably helped cause some of the exceptional fast temperature rise in the 1990s which is now attributed to global warming.
If you don’t believe acid rain was real, you should spend an weekend in the Adirondacks, where the lakes and dorests are still recovering.
The problem with acid rain is that the sulfides being pumped into the atmosphere were mixing with atmospheric water to create an acid, which lowered the pH of the lakes and ground water so much that entire lakes went completely dead. The government required scrubbers be put on sulfur-emitting smokestacks, and sulfuric acid content in the air plummeted.
Ironically, the sulfuric aerosols also helped seed cloud formation. This helped reflect into space much of the sun’s radiation. At the same time, the solar cycles had become very severe. Solar emissions drive away cosmic rays which also cause cloud formation. So for a few decades, we weren’t experiencing the kind of heat that solar cycles cause. When we cleaned up all the sulfur emissions, the sun shining on the earth got a lot brighter, and the temperature of the Earth gained about 0.5 degrees between teh late 80s and the turn of the millennium.
Now, it’s that sudden warming that they are blaming on the greenhouse gasses, as they re-write history to obscure the cooling that occurred in the 1940s and 1950s.
>>>>>You will see EXACTLY the same agenda.<<<<<
And also the recent declaration of the beluga whale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet as an Endangered Species, and hence the 30 by 100 miles Inlet as a ES Habitat.
Doing those two things unleashes a whole arsenal of harassment tools to the left and the envirowhackos,
Guaranteed they’ll be used to stifle, hamstring, and impede development of homes, commerce, fishing tours, and of course energy from Anchorage to the tip of Kenai Peninsula. Not to mention anything considered a watershed into Cook Inlet.
Economic destruction is the whole point of the Endangered Species Act, at least so far as the left is concernend.
Al Gore is admired by the left and by elites for his brazen craftiness, not for any actual accomplishment.
And in June, 1974, Time Magazine had an article saying that the scientists were sure we were heading into another mini ice age.
Isn't Neil Armstrong still alive? Buzz Aldrin too?
Climate Research NewsClick on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
A strange statement altogether. Dead men don't walk on the moon. Alternatively, Neil Armstrong was the first living man to walk on the moon. Coincidentally, he is still alive.
Ahhh...I love Saturday mornings and a hot cup of decaf.
Isn’t this the senator that NM liberals removed by a wide margin after a single term?
“Or was it Harrison Schmitt? Ie, the last man to reach the surface of the Moon and therefore, in that sense, the last man to walk on the Moon, whereas Cernan was the last man to leave the Moon.”
I was proud to know him then
And Prouder to know him now
He was the only Real Scientist to Walk on the Moon
He was also a Great U.S. Senator
B.S.
How did you meet him>
My wife worked in his 2nd campaign. She went to church with his mother. We lived in Silver City, NM for almost 14 years. Silver City is near where Jack was born in Santa Rita, an open pit copper mine has replace the town of Santa Rita.
He was defeated after his 1-st term by Jeff Bingaman, who is one of the most leftist members of the Senate. Jeff’s uncle John Bingaman was a local Demo King Maker, and loan shark (literally)
A New York ad agency ran Jack’s campaign and some things were said about Bingaman that although were true, the public did not want to hear.
Jack Schmitt was a Non-Politico, and was and is a great American.
And NM is what it is.
I met Jack because we knew his family, and I was actively involved in NM politics.
At one point I was Republican County Chairman in Grant County, lived in Silver City.
I suspect this poorly worded description meant "the man who most recently walked on the moon."
If you believe in global warming, then you don’t know Jack Schmidt!
I met him when I was very young. My mom worked on his campaign in New Mexico. In fact, somewhere she has an autograph he gave me on a paper plate at a campaign dinner.
Oops...wrong Schmidt. I met Harrison.
My father met Gene Cernan in 1975 when Navy astronauts toured the Naval Research Lab. My father discussed the current status of TIMATION/NTS which contributed most the key concepts for GPS.
Did your father work at the Naval Research Labs?
I never worked as an Engineer, but have had a keen interest in all things technical since mid-1970’s. Got my first Ham ticket in 1976, hold an Extra-Class Amateur License and GROL commercial license. But I worked in outside sales for over 30 years.
I lived in NM from 1972-1986, and during my time there made many Ham friends who worked in the Labs. Developed great respect for their ability. Very Very few lefties in the sciences. The ones I remember were in the Newspaper business.
I also ran a Navy MARS station for 20 years. Handled health & welfare traffic for the Navy and Marine Corp. This was before the Web and cell phones. Truly enjoyed my association with them.
There were a really good group of “home brew builders” in NM then. It is a dying art, but I still liked it. Most of that time I took 4 journals on this topic. Did a lot of PC board fabrication. Screen print and etch stuff. Scrounged parts everywhere.
My father worked at NRL from 1943-1980. He designed Vanguard 1, Minitrack, invented the Naval Space Surveillance System and invented TIMATION which with minor modifications is GPS.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-11/nrl-par112205.php
Responses like yours discredit those of us who are trying to inform the world about the scam that is greenhouse gasses; you come across like a knuckle-dragging anti-intellectual. Your comments on this thread are exactly what the leftists are trying to characaturize us all as being.
Wait. I thought GW skeptics were flat-earthers. Does this mean Dr. Jack Schmitt is now a flat-earther?
Yes, but it had to do with a peak sun-spot cycle. That's a more likely candidate then the coal scrubbers and anthropogenic cloud removal.
For several hundred years, temperature and solar activity (as inferred from the strength of sunspot cycles) correlated excellently. In the late 20th century, after a series of very strong sunspot cycles began, there was a surprising cooling, and THEN intense warming. What I’m stating is that the injection and then removal of sulfide aerosols delayed the effect of the sunspot cycle, by temporarily causing the same effect that solar weather had done in the past: that is, causing cloud formation.
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