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Posted on 01/08/2009 8:27:27 AM PST by all the best
Those of us who refuse to accept calls from proponents of global warming for drastic restrictions on production often confront objections like this:
Skeptics, blinded by fanatical devotion to the free market, ignore evidence. True enough, you can trot out a few scientists who agree with you. But the overwhelming majority of climate scientists view man-made global warming as a great threat to the world. The course of inaction you urge on us threatens the earth with disaster.
Christopher Horner's excellent book provides a convincing response to this all-too-frequent complaint.
But how can it do so? Will not an "anti-global-warming" book of necessity consist of an account of scientists who dissent from the consensus? If so, will it not fall victim to the difficulty raised in our imagined objection? The book will pick a few favored experts to back up a preconceived political agenda.
Horner strikes at the root of this objection: it rests on a false premise. Contrary to what our objection assumes, there is no consensus of scientists behind global-warming alarmism:
Professor Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch polled climate scientists to rate the statement, "To what extent do you agree or disagree that climate change is mostly the result of anthropogenic causes?" … They received responses from 530 climate scientists in 27 countries, of whom 44 percent were either neutral or disagreed with the statement… Science magazine helpfully refused to publish the findings.
But do not the most prestigious bodies of scientists, such as the National Academy of Science and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, claim that man-made global warming is indeed a danger? Horner shows that matters are not what they appear. Environmentalists insinuated their way into the National Academy through "a special Temporary Nominating Committee for the Global Environment, bypassing normal election procedures"
(Excerpt) Read more at mises.org ...
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Negative attitude toward “global warming” is the same today as a geocentric universe was in Copernicus’ and Galileo’s time. The MSM is the Spanish Inquisition, Algore is the Pope and that NASA hack is Torquemada............
Poincaré was the one who first noticed the phenomenon has since been given the flashy name "chaotic dynamics": some (systems of) non-linear differential equations (it happens including those governing heating and cooling in fluid media like air) are so sensitive to initial condidtions that without complete knowledge of the inital conditions, they are useless for long-term prediction. Hence the impossibility of predicting the weather 48 hours out.
This insight suffices to show that all discrete computer models of weather or climate (that try to look more than about 48 hours out) are necessarily example of 'Garbage in, garbage out'.
But Miskolczi showed that even more garbage goes into AGW climate models. The computer modelers don't bother going back to the partial differential equations that actually describe the greenhouse effect. Instead they use solutions to those equations derived in the 1920's under the simplifying assumption of an infinitely thick atmosphere of uniform composition!
Miskolczi solved the actual greenhouse equations with more realistic version of the atmosphere (finite thickness, though I think still uniform in composition) and got a model that, without any fiddling to get it to fit existing data, correctly modeled temperature on both Earth and Mars over a run of several decades, and (drum roll please) predicts that the greenhouse effect is self-limiting and the disasters the AGW folk predict simply won't occur.
If we're really talking about science, the number of dissenters, or the number of folks supporting the prevailing view are irrelevancies. Poincaré and Miskolczi alone trump a stadium full of 'climate modelers' whose fat grants depend on all agreeing with each other and on whipping up hysteria so the otherwise dry and academic exercise of trying to understand long-term climate change sounds important to policy makers.
The global warming “consensus” is little different than the Catholic Church’s embracing of Aristotle’s ideas about the universe during the Middle Ages. Aristotle had declared that the earth was the center of the universe and that the sun and planets revolved about a static earth. To scientists of the day you either excepted this dogma or faced the Inquisition for heresy. Any scientific study that disproved this dogma, like that done Galileo, was condemned and their books were banned or burned as heresy.
Global warming exists—If you go back as far to the Ice Age.
The idea that the planet is somehow being subjected to a radical change in climate from man made activity is ridiculous, unfounded, unprovable and flies in the face of the traditional rules of scientific hypotheseis and theory.
It’s disgusting to “grunt scientists” (like myself) that so many high profile scientists would sell-out and embrace this climate change garbage.
Fear global warmism, where the only "solutions" to an imaginary crisis are to surrender rights, property, and self-rule.
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Remember:
If you get into an argument with a fool, nobody will be able to tell you apart.
GoreBULL warming is just another lie the left uses to attack American values. Like evolution, it tells people to forget God and to worship Nature like a God. When this hoax is uncovered in the next decades, when the temperature doesn’t rise but drops, the Left will just move onto a different scam to pull the wool over our eyes.
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I forgot. That scares me.
If the sun spot frequency to temperature correlations are correct, the 70s coming ice age predictions are more likely to be true.
Books like this are definitely needed. I'm trying to understand the human tendency toward mass stupidity and there are so many examples such as the recent election, the Algore generated global warming hype, the various financial bubble booms and crashes, the popularity of Paris Hilton, the ease the demonrats fool the masses and marginalize their critics...etc., etc.
The left is far better at exploiting this seemingly built in tendency and even supposedly smart people fall in line.
Global Warming - a first class Gorbasm.
Coldest year in 15, snow flooding Giant Stadium against my poor Eagles, no ice bergs leaking yet the public is brainwashed as are our crumb crunchers in primary school that the earth is firing up and we need carbon offsets!!!
You will get no sympathy from this Cowboys fan........
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