Posted on 06/27/2011 7:06:33 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Found this listed on Breitbart’s Big Government website as #17 on today’s topic list.
I’m sort of feeling this!
End is near?
Nah!
They might shelve it for a while, only to renew it at a later time.
For example, Gore is now on population reduction. That was the greenie rave of 40 years ago, only it was called Population Zero. It was highly popular, then went into obscurity. Now, Gore is reopening it.
These issues don’t die. They just shelve them until they fade from memory for a while, only to be resurrected later.
we can hope!
I met a guy the other day that started railing about man causing global warming, and how bad it was.
I told him that AGW was a myth and a scam.
He had no idea what AGW meant.
He was also clueless when I tried to explain the MWP and
The Little Ice Age.
We can not fix stupid.
I thought AGW stood for “Al Gore’s Whopper.”
That is good,,,,never heard that before.
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Bob Diaz says:
To me, it seems that the AGW believers can keep going and going on. Mostly because the media is withholding the key information from the public.
Theres just too much invested in this scam to give up now. As long as the lies keep coming forth, they can maximize their deception.
We could have massive amounts of snow in Southern California in the middle of summer and the believers will still pump out the same AGW myth.
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Arn Riewe says:
Its an interesting day at WUWT. Just after I posted a link to Walter Russell Meade under the last post on Tim Wirth, up pops this post focusing on Al Gore, an even more relevant topic to the blog by Meade, The Failure of Al Gore: Part One.
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/06/24/the-failure-of-al-gore-part-one/
Its a sad thing to watch as CAGW gasps for its last breath.
79 degrees in Sacramento.
Over the years, each of these categories is always filled. There is rotation between them, obviously, but they rotate asynchronously. As the "holder" of a particular niche gets old, a "niche vacuum" is produced, and record producers go looking for something to fill the niche. Whoever gets there first with a decent offering will fill the niche, and then the producers shift their focus toward another niche.
Of course, there are producers that specialize in one or two niches, but the really successful producers have projects in the wings for every niche.
In the same way, the left -- and maybe the right, too, depending on how you look at it -- rotates a set of issues across the public stage. As you correctly point out, the "population explosion" issue gets trotted out from time to time, and has for at least a hundred years; more, if you go back to the original thesis of Thomas Malthus. At other times it's global warming, or global cooling, or environmentally-induced cancer, or the effects of insecticides, or the over-use of antibiotics.
Once in a while, some innovator tries to come up with a new one, or a hybrid of two old ones; I'm thinking here of the "environmental racisim" trial balloon that got run up the flagpole a few years ago.
What's that line of Menckens?
Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.Smart guy, old H. L.
Bring it, Mr. Wirth a challenge
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UPDATE (Sunday 6/26 8:30AM): After choosing the quote of the week this week (see above here) Ive come to the conclusion that former Senator Wirth is mentally incapable of debating the issue in a rational manner, would likely not respond, and thus there is no point in keeping this as a top post. A
Former Senator Tim Wirth invoked the nuclear option yesterday. Small mushroom clouds are now appearing across the world as people read what he said. This is my response to him. It will remain the top post for the next few days or until Mr. Wirth responds to the offer made below.
I got the email about this bit of climate ugliness just after having dinner Friday night. I couldnt do anything about it while I was driving home from Sacramento then, and it is a good thing, because it made me quite angry. The hour long drive gave me time to think about it and remember what the world was like before global warming supposedly made the weather worse.
First, let me remind everyone who former Senator Tim Wirth is. For that, we have to go back to June 1988. Dr. James Hansen is getting ready to testify before the Senate on what he thinks is a serious problem, global warming. The sponsor for Dr. Hansen? Senator Tim Wirth.
If we left it there, there would really be nothing to say beyond the fact that hes the guy who put Hansen in front of the Senate and launched the cause. But Senator Wirth was culpable in foisting stagecraft onto the Senate to make them feel the problem in the form of a well crafted lie.
If any of you have ever been in Washington DC during the summertime, youll be able to relate to this. Senator Timothy Wirth made sure that room was steamy. This transcript excerpt is from PBS series Frontline which aired a special in April 2007. Here he admits his stagecraft in his own words:
TIMOTHY WIRTH: We called the Weather Bureau and found out what historically was the hottest day of the summer. Well, it was June 6th or June 9th or whatever it was. So we scheduled the hearing that day, and bingo, it was the hottest day on record in Washington, or close to it.
DEBORAH AMOS: [on camera] Did you also alter the temperature in the hearing room that day?
TIMOTHY WIRTH: What we did is that we went in the night before and opened all the windows, I will admit, right, so that the air conditioning wasnt working inside the room. And so when the- when the hearing occurred, there was not only bliss, which is television cameras and double figures, but it was really hot.[Shot of witnesses at hearing]
Watch the Frontline video here. [UPDATE: The Frontline video has gone missing, but here it is on YouTube]
"near"?
I thought that hoax/scam was long dead and buried, aside from a handful of ignorant hangers-on?
Post/thread...BTTT!
Might as well repeat the links to Pt 1 & 2 of Cook’s articles:
I think a little more connecting of the dots is required to make the case. Whatever the case is.
This is wishful thinking. The fact is that the AGW crusade won’t go away until it is replaced with another scam of a similar magnitude that can suck hundreds of billions of dollars out of the economy and enrich the scammers. There are far too many people getting filthy rich off this scam — and with our tax dollars, to boot.
I’m drawing a blank on MWP.
Did you mention the Maunder Minimum, though?
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