The Shocking Truth: The Scientific American Poll on Climate Change

Cato@liberty ^ | November 10, 2010 @ 12:48 pm | Patrick J. Michaels

[Publius6961]

"he [Hansen] has failed to note that in 1988 he predicted that the West Side Highway in Manhattan would go permanently under water in twenty years.

This fruitcake is a hack and is still searching for a clue about science.

Why does he still have a job, at NASA, of all places, is a bigger mystery than the main cause of global warming.

[TaxPayer2000]

The link:

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-shocking-truth-the-scientific-american-poll-on-climate-change/

does not work for me.

[Cyber Liberty]

Why does he still have a job, at NASA, of all places, is a bigger mystery than the main cause of global warming.

That he is a part of an organization now more interested in "Muslim outreach" than space exploration is not a mystery to me at all.

[Smokin' Joe]

AGW is a carefully constructed fantasy which apparently is extremely difficult to give up, like a lonely little girl and her imaginary friend.

You have to let them come around on their own, which takes time. You can push gently, but too hard, too soon, and they are likely to have some sort of psychotic break.

(Liberals, that is, little girls can handle it.)

[oh8eleven]

26% said greenhouse gases from human activity, 32% solar variation, and 78% “natural processes.” (In reality all three are causes of climate change.)
In reality, the 26% from human activity is BS.

[Pontiac]

Here is the Poll on Scientific American website.

Taking the temperature: Climate change poll

[Interesting Times]

Looks like the AGW SC(ientific) AM(erican) is over.

[mazda77]

“The forecast for tonight is dark. Followed by widely scattered light in the morning.” George Carlin’s Hippy Dippy Weatherman skit on his first albumn.

Other than that, most everything else is what some would call an educated guess.

[Stepan12]

The readers' realism as regards 'Scientific American' is in contrast to 'Scientific American' itself. This magazine was owned by someone with the last name of Piel who was a Communist or at least his wife is one. She was the leader of the Communist "Emergency Civil Liberties Union."

As part of the scientific veracity of 'Scientific America,' they declared the Wright brothers invention of the flying plane was fictitious three years after the Wright bothers invention actually flew.

[Reily]

I stopped subscribing to Scientific American during the Reagan years. It seemed every month they would have an article from a group of political scientists (or the occasional “hard” scientist who had gone “political”!) that Reagan's deployment of Pershings to Europe would start the 3rd World War with the USSR.

Well I must have slept through that war or was out for coffee when it happened. Also apparently someone lost the USSR! I can't find it on a map anymore.

All that proves that the term political science is any oxymoron!

[dennisw]

Very nice but I’ll bet the numbers would have been higher a few years ago when the economy was better. When the economy stinks and your college grad student is living at home and delivering pizza because he can’t get any better.... This tends to sharpen your mind and makes you want to have nothing to do with paying higher energy prices to make some eco-extremest happy

[Publius6961]

In reality, the 26% from human activity is BS.

I think you misunderstood the figure.
That percentage is the number of people whose opinion is that human activity plays a role. NOT the percentage of the warming caused by human activity.

It is the report of a vote; can't be BS.

I do agree that it is BS that humans activity contribute a significant amount that would warrant the panic and and the waste of wealth in trying to eliminate it. It is barely measureable.

[Publius6961]

That he is a part of an organization now more interested in "Muslim outreach" than space exploration is not a mystery to me at all.

In the interest of accuracy, that's not Hansen; it was his boss, who might be muslim : Charles Bolden, ordered to do so by Obama.

[xp38]

They weren’t alone. It took quite a while for the Wright Brothers to prove to the world what they had done. I had an old paperback of their story that was quite the read. Their first trip to Europe to prove their ability to fly is one of the most thrilling reads in American or World History.

[Publius6961]

That he is a part of an organization now more interested in "Muslim outreach" than space exploration is not a mystery to me at all.

In the interest of accuracy, that's not Hansen; it was his boss, who might be muslim : Charles Bolden, ordered to do so by Obama.

Fruitcake Boss

Michelle Malkin

[oh8eleven]

I think you misunderstood the figure.
No, I understood what was being said, just didn't take the time to make that clear enough.
My BS was to their comment that [emphasis mine]- "In reality all three are causes of climate change."
As you said and which I wholeheartedly agree- "it is BS that humans activity contribute a significant amount"

[HerrBlucher]

Edison had the same problem with the phonograph, many thought he was a ventriloquist....LOL!

[Cyber Liberty]

In the interest of accuracy, I didn’t say Hansen is responsible for the diversion of NASA’s mission. He just works there, on another diversion of NASA’s mission.

[Cyber Liberty]

Publius seems to be in the business of straightening everybody out today, whether they need it or not.

[EternalVigilance]

Danged climate keeps changing here in Iowa. Snowed last night. Real folks call it “weather.”