Posted on 05/23/2008 10:51:44 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Right!
They couldn't predict that warming AT THIS VERY MOMENT would stop, YET, they still insist they understand what is happening and that it will start warming again.
Their answer to why they were wrong is freekin’ ludicrous.
“Less Concerned...”???
Worrying about the weather is like worrying if Portugal is going to start a space program. Nothing you can do about it and really why should you care.
“For Republicans, and those who had little trust in scientists, more knowledge did not mean greater concern.”
Skepticism is (or used to be) the cornerstone of science. Even scientists shouldn’t trust other scientists. The really good ones don’t even trust their own science — they generate as many hypotheses as possible to test their theories; by attempting to disprove them.
This goes to my favorite saying. The more ignorant a person is on a subject, the more likely they are to believe the Liberal position.
As a knowledgeable Republican I don’t believe in anthropogenic global warming because:
Mars and Jupiter are warming sans SUV’s
All scientific evidence available indicates atmospheric Carbon Dioxide increases occur following warming, not preceding it.
All scientific evidence available indicates the earth stopped warming nearly ten years ago.
The new Argos system data shows the oceans have cooled slightly over the last five years and the very deepest water under Antarctica has cooled precipitously.
The Southern Hemisphere sea ice area narrowly surpassed the previous historic maximum of 16.03 million sq. km to 16.17 million sq. km. in the last year
NASA satellites found that last winter’s Arctic Sea ice covered 2 million square kilometers (772,000 square miles) more than the last three years’ average.
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation is in a “cool” phase and one of the strongest La Niñas in many years is slowly weakening due to seasonal temperature increases but continues to blanket the Pacific Ocean near the equator.
The head of the IPCC admitted to the BBC this January that there has been no net warming in the last century
The IPCC has admitted their models failed to predict the extent of the current La Nina and the cloud activity associated with it, (water vapor makes up an estimated 90% to 95% of gasses considered “greenhouse” )
The IPCC just announced they expect the earth to cool for the next eight years and admitted (without saying so) that their previous prediction of a .3 centigrade increase during that period was wrong.
Solar scientists from both Canada and the Soviet Union have, independent of each other, published papers in the last two months that claim that solar activity has not increased as was expected during this phase of the usual11 year solar cycle. In fact, scientists in both countries claim that the Sun has become dramatically less active and they are worried that we might be entering a “Solar Minimum”.
Etc, Etc.,Etc.
With a traditional broadcast and print media that is so corrupted by ignorance and partisanship, it is no surprise that so many morons can be led to think the world is warming when it is cooling, or that man can impact the worlds climate to a any measurable degree
It's for the fishies.
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