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As warming skeptics gloat, the Earth gets hotter
Toronto Star ^ | February 27, 2010 | By Peter Gorrie, Environment Columnist

Posted on 02/27/2010 8:16:42 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

This drives me nuts.

A recent British opinion poll found only one-quarter of respondents believe human activities are causing climate change – down 16 percentage points since November.

"Guess what?" crows a U.K. blogger who calls himself Steve Green. "Man-made climate change skeptics are now in the majority! So the science is not exactly settled after all is it?"

By the same logic, I suppose, he'd conclude that if a majority told pollsters the sun circles Earth, centuries of astronomy would be cast into doubt.

The fact that polls reveal diminishing concern doesn't mean there's less reason for concern.

If it were just Green or a handful of his ilk spinning their trash, it wouldn't matter. But there are many, on the Internet and in mainstream media, who similarly confuse opinion with fact and free expression with reality.

Their efforts are contributing to what an increasing number of commentators are happily calling the collapse of the climate change movement.

(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...


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KEYWORDS: climategate; failure; globalwarming; hoax; socialism
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Another bitter clinger to the AGW hoax.
1 posted on 02/27/2010 8:16:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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"Man-made climate change skeptics are now in the majority! So the science is not exactly settled after all is it?"

Well, "consensus" is the criteria they used to promote it but now it isn't enough to deny it? LOL
2 posted on 02/27/2010 8:18:40 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin!)
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Beam me to Planet Gore !

3 posted on 02/27/2010 8:19:58 AM PST by steelyourfaith (Warmists as "traffic light" apocalyptics: "Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds."-Monckton)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s only the hot air spewing forth from the AGWers that is causing the warming they seem to believe exists.


4 posted on 02/27/2010 8:20:19 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What he’s really saying is that people are stupid....that we must “follow” to save ourselves from our stupidity.


5 posted on 02/27/2010 8:23:20 AM PST by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well they will soon be a by themselves in clinging.


6 posted on 02/27/2010 8:24:46 AM PST by Republic_of_Secession.
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The fact that polls reveal diminishing concern doesn't mean there's less reason for concern.

True, the Marxist Watermelons still have the goal of a Communist utopia where everyone is imprisoned in a Gulag except the inner circle party elite.

7 posted on 02/27/2010 8:27:09 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What caused the last ice age?
What caused the earth to warm to end the last ice age?

Do these people claim the climate or earth temperature would be static without people?

I think all people that think we are destroying the earth's climate should leave this earth immediately, otherwise staying would be a hypocrisy.

8 posted on 02/27/2010 8:27:20 AM PST by GregoTX (When people find they can vote themselves money it will herald the end of the republic. Ben Franklin)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nothing dies harder than a blindly-held false assumption.


9 posted on 02/27/2010 8:27:25 AM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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As warming skeptics gloat, the Earth gets hotter

What part of "Decline" in "Hide the Decline" did you not understand Gorrie?

10 posted on 02/27/2010 8:28:21 AM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: cripplecreek

Consensus of like-minded “scientists” reviewing each others work is more like it.


11 posted on 02/27/2010 8:30:14 AM PST by jdsteel (CONGRESS: Take it again in twenty ten.)
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To: GregoTX

I’d be interested in hearing more of what Sarah Palin has to say about the matter as she dealt with permafrost and tundra issues.


12 posted on 02/27/2010 8:30:16 AM PST by at bay (My father was born with 28 ounces of flesh in 1924 then went on to become Mr. (Glenn) Holland.)
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To: cripplecreek
Well, "consensus" is the criteria they used to promote it but now it isn't enough to deny it?

Haha, good point.
13 posted on 02/27/2010 8:31:11 AM PST by andyk
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“Environment Columnist”?

The exposure of the rampant, all-encompassing fraud within the IPCC must really have this guy’s shorts in a knot. Do newspapers really have the cash to pay for someone to whine about a fiction like manmade global warming?


14 posted on 02/27/2010 8:31:39 AM PST by LostInBayport (2010 - The Second American Revolution. The first shot was fired 1/19/2010 -- here in Massachusetts!)
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To: cripplecreek

There may be something to their argument...Today is February 27. I’m guessing that in a matter of a few short months, it’s going to be substantially warmer than it is now!!


15 posted on 02/27/2010 8:33:09 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: andyk

Consensus also “proved” that Pluto isn’t a planet.


16 posted on 02/27/2010 8:35:03 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This person has a vested interest in AGW and will die clinging to this sham.


17 posted on 02/27/2010 8:41:39 AM PST by Blue Highway ("Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself" Barack Obama, Oct 15, 2008 Presidential debate)
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"Man-made climate change skeptics are now in the majority! So the science is not exactly settled after all is it?"

Count me in!

For one million dollars I will use my scientific expertise and guarantee that by June all the cities within the 48 continental states of the USA will be considerably warmer then they are now and all because of man made global warming.

Now, where's my money?

18 posted on 02/27/2010 8:41:49 AM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Joe 6-pack
My concern is, the Sun is beginning to scale back up into a maximum cycle. (every 11 years)

The Ejecta and increased infrared radiation caused by Solar flares and storms is what really heats up the Earth's atmosphere. Of course the Warmists will claim it's the Human race causing it.

They will be more aggressive than ever and demand extensive laws the first chance they get over the next 11 years of the coming Solar maximum. The lies will flow like water from the media and we might lose this fight because of them.

19 posted on 02/27/2010 8:42:30 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP ( Give me Liberty, or give me an M-24A2!)
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What monumental morons. What complete oafs. What deceiving fools. What...I could go on.


20 posted on 02/27/2010 8:42:59 AM PST by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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