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Posted on 02/17/2010 1:12:16 AM PST by ricks_place
Of the festivals of nonsense that periodically overtake American politics, surely the silliest is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and, therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man stuff like renewable energy, solar panels and carbon taxes. Just drill, baby, drill.
When you see lawmakers like Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina tweeting that “it is going to keep snowing until Al Gore cries ‘uncle,’ ” or news that the grandchildren of Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma are building an igloo next to the Capitol with a big sign that says “Al Gore’s New Home,” you really wonder if we can have a serious discussion about the climate-energy issue anymore.
The climate-science community is not blameless. It knew it was up against formidable forces — from the oil and coal companies that finance the studies skeptical of climate change to conservatives who hate anything that will lead to more government regulations to the Chamber of Commerce that will resist any energy taxes. Therefore, climate experts can’t leave themselves vulnerable by citing non-peer-reviewed research or failing to respond to legitimate questions, some of which happened with both the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Although there remains a mountain of research from multiple institutions about the reality of climate change, the public has grown uneasy. What’s real? In my view, the climate-science community should convene its top experts — from places like NASA, America’s national laboratories, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, the California Institute of Technology and the U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre — and produce a simple 50-page report...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
He's an idiot.
I say drill, baby, drill.
True. And it will get worse. Al Gore is back.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2452149/posts
parsy,who is going to bed,now after shamelessly providing the above link.
Why does anyone care what Friedman thinks? He studied Renaissance literature. It is evident that whether the weather gets warmer or colder, it will confirm Friedman’s nonscientific faith in AGW.
You can’t help but wonder how the article would read if they had an extremely hot summer.
The New York Times is still in business?
Another moron who tries to dismiss skeptics as “funded by big oil” and pooh-poohs the rampant fraud in the data as “a few mistakes” by a “few researchers” while there is still a “mountain of evidence” for warming.
Is Friedman dishonest or just ignorant ? The “mountain” of warming data all uses the faulty foundation of temperature data provided by just four sources in the entire world. We now know thanks to the ClimateGate whistleblower that at least two of those four sources had their data deliberately tampered with by computer programs that bumped temperatures upward over time. This means that literally HALF of all the data — and ALL of the ground-temperature data — that all those “thousands” of other researchers used was fraudulent.
We have leading MGW scientists who claimed just last year that 2000-2009 was the warmest decade in centuries now admitting that there has been no warming since 1995 and there has actually been cooling since 2002. We have the IPCC admitting that they included wild claims about glacier melting and Amazon deforestation and African crop yields — claims they knew were ridiculous but included for “political impact”.
What will it take to break through the Warmists’ brainwashing ?
Ah yes, the old Precautionary Principle. Let's take out an insurance policy with a $100 trillion premium to insure against a million dollar risk. It's all so logical.
People like Freidman have to just be crying in their beer. Just a short time ago he occupied the moral high ground. Now he's party to one of the biggest frauds in history. So you see him hedging is bets. Mildly chastising the most flagrant practitioners of the crime, while saying he fully understands whey somebody up against the evil forces they face would resort to fraud.
How about a two sentence report.
There is no man made Global Warming science. All there is are trend models using falsified data.
It is interesting that Global Warming can now be said to cause anything. Snow in the east coast, no snow in Vancouver, drought in Australia. Any weather at all can be explained as being caused by global warming.
Unfortunately for you and the stupid books you write, Tommy boy, Americans are becoming less and less confused about "climate change" all the time.
Friedman and Krugman should be persona au gratin around here. I guess it’s all about seeing what the opposition is doing.
It's all fruit from the same poison tree. All I'd dispute is your "HALF" claim. The more we read, the more it seems it's all the same. Whether it's temperature records, or some lame proxy, it's nearly all corrupted and skewed to produce the desired outcome by alarmists.
Those are not mutually exclusive possibilities.
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Hey, watch it there; what’s anyone got against Renaissance literature? I studied it and now have a job working the parts counter at an autoparts store! So there!
global warming ping
What nonsense. Our drought is over. Matter of fact everyone on the eastern seaboard is praying for just one day of clear skies about now.
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't use reason to get into.
Its time for mankind to evolve.
Like in an alternate flooded world we will have webbed feet and gills.
Now that global cooling is becoming the new weather pattern its time to grow fur.
The alpha females of the future will be those with the most body hair.
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