Posted on 09/19/2013 5:23:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
There is a tradition in politics that is similar to one in the legal profession: When evidence supports your position, make your argument based on the evidence, but when it argues against your position, ignore the evidence and appeal to emotion.
The evidence is piling up that "climate change," formerly known as "global warming," is losing evidentiary support, despite recent "preliminary findings" by a group of "experts" from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that a Washington Post editorial suggests may prove, "warming has boosted the chances, in some cases significantly, that certain unwelcome weather or weather-related disasters will occur." The Post and other "true believers" ignore or ridicule a growing body of evidence rebutting their beliefs.
Most bad weather -- from hurricanes, which have been few this season, to tornadoes -- are unwelcome by those in their paths, but these weather phenomena have existed for centuries. Both sides seem to agree that CO2 levels are elevated, but they don't agree on whether that will cause dangerous climate change, including rising temperatures and turbulent weather. The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) argues, "The human effect is likely to be small relative to natural variability, and whatever small warming is likely to occur will produce benefits as well as costs."
Yet the climate change cultists continue to focus on melting polar ice caps and "displaced" polar bears as part of their emotional appeal for government to "fix" the problem. Now comes a report in the UK Daily Mail that "eminent scientists" have observed a record return of the Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60 percent in a year, covering with ice almost 1 million more square miles of ocean than in 2012.
In 2007, the BBC reported that by 2013, global warming would leave the Arctic "ice free." Oops!
Just how silly this is getting is an assertion by some activists that the current tensions in Syria might be linked to climate change. That's not as harebrained as a newspaper report in January 1933, which said, "Yo-Yo Banned in Syria, Blamed for Drought by Moslems." The Syrians of 1933 actually believed the up and down of a toy yo-yo affected the weather. If it went down and sprang right back up, rain. If it went down and didn't spring up, drought. Police reportedly patrolled the streets, confiscating the toy. Ridiculous? Not as ridiculous as some of the junk science coming out of climate research circles today.
Last March, the Daily Mail reported that global temperatures are about to drop "below the level that the (computer) models forecast with '90 percent certainty.'"
Marc Morano, a former staff member of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (whose web page climatedepot.com offers numerous scientific articles debunking climate change), emails me: "As a long observer of the global weather movement, I can say that the events of 2013 (have) been one of the most devastating to the movement. Both poles have record expanding ice. Global temperatures have failed to rise for 15 plus years, sea level rise is failing to accelerate, tornadoes are at record lows, hurricanes are near record low activity ... 2013 may be the year in which man-made global warming fears enter the dustbin of history."
I doubt it. Too many people have too much invested in perpetuating this fiction. Billions of dollars and other currencies have been diverted into "green" projects in a Chicken Little attempt to stop the sky from falling. The BBC reports it as fact in virtually every story it does on the environment. Ditto the American media. Most media ignore evidence that counters climate change proponents.
Former Vice President Al Gore has made a personal fortune promoting the cult of global warming, a cult being partially defined as a belief system that ignores proof contrary to its beliefs.
Perhaps the climate change counter-revolutionaries should adopt the yo-yo as their symbol and send Gore and his apostles a box of them
Obama talks about “phony scandals”, but he has wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on phony science. It’s time to investigate the phony “scientists” who faked computer models in order to get federal grants. That is no different than quack doctors scamming Medicare for their ill-gotten gains. Theft is theft.
Soon the shoe will be on the other foot....we can mock the “global cooling” deniers as un- scientific knuckleheads....like they do to us...
Human contribution to the CO2 put into the atmosphere each year is less than 3% of the total. Nature accounts for over 97%. Arguing over reducing this or that is idiotic, you’re talking about the fourth or fifth decimal point in an uncontrolled natural system. To think we could have some significant effect even if we wanted to is pure folly.
Following his success in "stopping the rise of the oceans"...the Grate Leader follows up...
...Obama issues an Executive Order to the Sun...
....to increase it's magnetic field....
and make a good crop of sunspots before elections in 2016....
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. They predict that by 2016 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades.
The last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the Little Ice Age....and lasted 400 years.
Good luck surviving with no electricity and GE modified seeds.
It appears that the Global Warming enthusiasts have scammed more BILLIONS from us than that rank beginner, Bernie Madoff.
Maddof resides in jail, while the “pure and noble” “warmers” sit on piles of cash scammed from the rest of us.
I think that is what “Hope and CHANGE” meant.
Statistically, it ought to be more of a “worry”....if you sat around and consumed your vast emotions on the threat of a meteor hitting London, Vegas, or Duke University.
But you could also spend better “worry” time on the threat of a giant volcano situation coming out of central Italy, killing 250,000 between the gases and lava in thirty minutes, and creating a global cooling effect for the entire Earth over the next year or two.
It always seems odd to me....people seek to put the “worry” into people....but always pick the lesser statistical way of going. Kinda like giving you a choice of getting killed by a Coca Cola truck or a Coors truck. Statistically....better chances of long living by picking the Coors truck, but we never seem to grasp that part of the statistical game.
I would like to see them be sued heavily to make restitution and serve jail time.
What is the deal with GE modified seeds? and why should i buy the ones advertised as NOT genetically modified
I keep hearing an ad on Patriot Satellite radio about a new product of NON-genetically modified seeds that are 1/3 the cost of a previous bunch of seeds sold for $120
Has anyone bought them? I am tempted to buy 2 - one to grow now (and make sure they work) and one to store
Soon!...Why wait?
The Global Warming Cult has always been a bunch of junk-science moonbats.
Sound familiar?
Are you saying George Washington Carver was an evil mad scientist?
You couldn't live without genetically modified crops and animals....unless you foraged for nuts and berries, eating only wild game.
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