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The End of an Illusion (The science for man made global warming, climate change, etc. isn't there.)
Real Clear Politics ^ | April 4, 2013 | Robert Tracinski

Posted on 04/05/2013 1:20:16 AM PDT by neverdem

Many years ago, I remember thinking that it would take many years to refute the panicked claims about global warming. Unlike most political movements, which content themselves with making promises about, say, what the unemployment rate will be in two years if we pass a giant stimulus bill—claims that are proven wrong (and how!) relatively quickly—the environmentalists had successfully managed to put their claims so far off into the future that it would take decades to test them against reality.

But guess what? The decades are finally here.

At Forbes, Harry Binswanger dates the beginning of the campaign to 1979 and puts it in an amusing perspective...

--snip--

That has been one of my complaints about the global warming scare since the very beginning. We only have systematic global temperature measurements going back about 150 years, which on the relevant timescale—a geological time-scale—is a blink of an eye. Moreover, the measurement methods for these global temperatures have been not been entirely consistent, making them susceptible to changes due to everything from a different paint used on the outside of the weather station to the "urban heat island" effect that happens when a weather station in the middle of a field is surrounded over the years by parking lots. And somehow, among all the billions spent on global warming research, not much money seems to have made its way to the enormous international effort that would be required to ensure the accurate and consistent measurement of global temperatures.

So we have not been able to establish what ought to be the starting point for any theory about global temperatures: a baseline for what is a normal global temperature and what is a natural variation in temperature.

--snip--

But can't we all just stop calling this "science" now?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agw; climatechange; climatechangefraud; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; pseudoscience

1 posted on 04/05/2013 1:20:16 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

You forget, the science is settled because every democrat agrees, if only for the sake of agreement. And since the AGW deniers are no better than holocaust deniers and therefore no better than Nazis, science must adapt. It can’t be about evidence anymore, but what feels right to those that matter. In fact, if the evidence doesn’t fit with the conclusion we all agree with, then the evidence is wrong, not us. SO SAY WE ALL!


2 posted on 04/05/2013 2:59:40 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
every year since 1979 GOVERNMENT has given grants to fund FAKE research, fake science called global warming. this alone proves government is the threat, doesn't work , is evil and should be kept extremely limited. not only is it fake science but they manufactured this fake crisis called global warming for the sole purpose of terrorizing the people into accepting bigger government , the destruction of capitalism, and the end of individual rights all which are the democrats/liberals goal.

Global warming is a huge hoax

democrats, government and the news media have been lying to the American people for decades

governmentS funded this fake research for DECADES

This proves that government is evil, a threat, doesn’t work and should be kept limited as it was in 1800’s America

what other science have they been lying to us about ? think different, question the “authorities” and “experts”.

The government and the news media manufacture many fake crisis all to get people to cry “we have to do something” and so government grows and our rights and freedom dissapear. the mass shooting crisis is another fake crisis as it doesn't exist statistically , more people die by ligthning strikes than do by mass shooters so it's statistically non-existent but the news media makes it a crisis that everyone is talking about and that something must be done about so you have states like colorado getting more background checks , banning magazines , the UN making treaties to take away our 2nd amendment right and Obama and democrats approving that treaty, you get these global warming carbon laws and shutting down of coal plants and a million other examples

3 posted on 04/05/2013 3:17:55 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Mary Landrieu voted for the UN to take away our 2nd amendment rights)
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To: neverdem
The media, academia, and liberals in general have way too much invested in this. I'm afraid we'll have to live with this nonsense forever.

At least till they collapse the economy and the global warming tool will no longer be needed.

4 posted on 04/05/2013 3:23:25 AM PDT by Carbonsteel
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To: neverdem
That being the case, we can summarily discard every law pertaining to "greenhouse gas". Co2 is now a natural part of the world again, and more of it is not going to threaten our very existence.

The EPA can be disbanded and their leader (who the hell is that now... another black female?) put to pasture.

Yea!

5 posted on 04/05/2013 3:23:36 AM PDT by grobdriver
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To: neverdem

“A theory with this many holes in it would be have been thrown out long ago, if not for the fact that it conveniently serves the political function of indicting fossil fuels as a planet-destroying evil and allowing radical environmentalists to put a modern, scientific face on their primitivist crusade to shut down industrial civilization.”

The last paragraph says it all. It also tells you that everything else Democrats believe in; diversity, green energy, cultural relativism, are all aimed at destroying civilization. Only then can we achieve utopia.


6 posted on 04/05/2013 3:23:48 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Gen.Blather
Most people and all democrats that I talk to still believe in the Global warming hoax and they argue against me , laughing at me , ridiculing me because I say global warming is a hoax

The news media has them as their puppets and slaves

7 posted on 04/05/2013 3:29:33 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Mary Landrieu voted for the UN to take away our 2nd amendment rights)
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To: Democrat_media
bigger government , the destruction of capitalism, and the end of individual rights

These are democrat/liberal goals because there is a concerted effort to brainwash the public. The MSM and academia are the main tools. The public is losing the will to reject forced collectivism. Unlimited government is no longer seen as a threat compared to the phony threats which are promulgated endlessly upon us.
8 posted on 04/05/2013 3:29:50 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Democrat_media

“Most people and all democrats that I talk to still believe in the Global warming hoax and they argue against me , laughing at me , ridiculing me…”

I think it works like this. The liberal world develops their “code.” In some cases, it’s a real code; like the AP style book. “We will no longer use the pejorative term ‘illegal immigrant.’ They are now ‘perspective citizens.’” So, with thousands of repetitions because so many people leave the televisions on 24 hour news, they become “perspective citizens.” People’s views have changed and they weren’t even aware it was happening. This is one reason why having a TV on in the doctor’s office drives me nuts. Even though people aren’t “listening” their subconscious is being programed.

Similarly, the press would not publish any anti-global warming studies. That was a decision made by the editorial boards. Their writers couldn’t quote an opposing view without using mocking terms. My own sister, who keeps CNN on in the background for company, has absorbed all of these views. She knows they’re right and I have to sit down and have a long discussion about each one to get her to see the light. But after a while, she’s back to her old beliefs.

Saul Alinski taught his followers to mock the opposition. Observers so don’t want to be mocked that they will never adopt a viewpoint they’ve seen publically mocked. (This indicates a beta or follower personality. There are probably fewer than 10 alphas or leader personalities per 100 followers.)


9 posted on 04/05/2013 3:58:51 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Gen.Blather
Yes and I mock them back

one I get them with that leaves them stunned and unable to reply is “If global warming is real then why did they change the name of it to climate change”, the look of confusion on their faces is priceless. and its not just democrats that believe in global warming. most average American joes are brainwashed by their TV in their living room, that is the problem

10 posted on 04/05/2013 4:02:53 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Mary Landrieu voted for the UN to take away our 2nd amendment rights)
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To: neverdem

I would love to have the money this hoax has cost humanity.

It is the World equivalent of shouting “FIRE” in a crammed theatre.


11 posted on 04/05/2013 4:05:48 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: neverdem
But can't we all just stop calling this "science" now?

The last line is my plea as well.

12 posted on 04/05/2013 4:37:56 AM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: neverdem
No way this is over people. There is too much invested. Besides, there might be a nugget of reality to the whole thing, which they can always hang on to.

My hope is that they Hysteria over it goes away, but I doubt that too.

13 posted on 04/05/2013 5:13:20 AM PDT by Paradox (Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
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To: neverdem
It's not science when history changes. A few years back two Canadian scientists found a Y2K bug in Hansen's numbers. When he admitted it (blaming Fox News) and then fixed his bug, 1998 was no longer the warmest year on record, 1934 was. Then, over the next couple of years, the "historical" data kept changing until 1998 was back out in front. When asked for the original data Hansen said there just wasn't enough disk space to keep it around, so he had to get rid of it.

Sorry, but it's not science if historical data keeps changing. It's 1984's Ministry of Truth.

14 posted on 04/05/2013 5:48:52 AM PDT by Dilbert56
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To: neverdem
Somebody ping Al Roker.

He's going to poop his pants when hears this.

'Course he does that at the drop of a hat.

15 posted on 04/05/2013 6:50:10 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: neverdem

Our New World Order masters only need to prop up this ruse for a couple more decades, until Agenda 21 is fully implemented. After that, it doesn’t matter. The cities will be filled, the rural areas will be off limits, and the permanent damage will be done.

With 2 generations of brainwashed children and complicit media to bolster our communist overlords, it is not going to be hard to fully implement Agenda 21 before they finally have to admit that global warming was much ado about nothing.

In 2 decades, it won’t matter because we will all be slaves anyway.


16 posted on 04/05/2013 10:22:41 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Free goodies for all -- Freedom for none.)
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To: Democrat_media

Similar to the old “food pyramid” that was designed by the grain industry and Kellogs, which said we should be eating 80% carbs.

Gee, and they wonder why we are obese in this nation.

Sure, they changed the food pyramid now, but only after the internet, and other ideas got out there.

We are a banana republic and have been for many years.

My dad used to tell me in all things “follow the money”.

We have more propaganda than the soviets did, IMO.

Thank your stars for the internet (which they are working hard to control).


17 posted on 04/05/2013 10:43:30 AM PDT by esoxmagnum (The rats have been trained to pull the D voting lever to get their little food pellet)
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18 posted on 04/05/2013 8:39:59 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Drag Me From Hell!)
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To: neverdem
....environmentalists had successfully managed to put their claims so far off into the future that it would take decades to test them against reality. But guess what? The decades are finally here.

We need to get out the word that the next fake crisis is being dreamed up by liberal elites as this one is dying... Liberal elites do these scams back to back to shore up their power... and we've got to call them on it - expose the little liars quicker...

19 posted on 04/06/2013 8:40:28 AM PDT by GOPJ (New AP term for Illegal Aliens IS Undocumented Democrats.... Jay Leno)
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