It sure as hell does, Neil.
Posted on 04/09/2007 4:37:22 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
... to whatever it is you’d rather not see
Opening shot
Zealotry quickly becomes grating. Which is why, after briefly marveling at each particular brand of loamy-lipped malice, I usually add Far Right ranters to my e-mail filter. Because there's only so much self-righteous shrieking a body can take. I do try to glance over the "Deleted Items" folder, just in case something I actually want to read has gotten into the reject slurry by accident.
Sunday, my eyes fell upon an e-mail with a headline close to -- "OH RIGHT! GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL PROBLEM -- CHECK OUT THESE TEMPERATURES FROM APRIL . . . "
You don't have to know much about global warming to know that scientists are alarmed about changing average world temperatures, over the decades, when a rise of a couple degrees can spell complete catastrophe.
They key word here is "average." There being frost on the Easter bunny's tail this week in Chicago doesn't mean we aren't still well on our way to watching the melted polar ice caps slosh up Ashland Avenue.
Current conditions do not refute long-term trends. A bum can find a $20 in the street and think, "I'm rich!" But he is not rich, he's a poor man with $20.
Can doctrine really blind a person so much that they don't get that? Even ideology doesn't explain it -- "Conservative," right? A synonym for cautious, concerned about huge changes of exactly the type scientists are yelling about?
And why? Republicans willfully ignore global warming -- or at least have up until this point -- because they are wedded to the interests of big business. Worrying about undercutting the bottom line at Worldwide Widgets, they turn a blind eye to the risk of global doom. Proudly, arrogantly, aggressively, utterly blind.
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
It sure as hell does, Neil.
It is Mr. Steinberg who is arrogant.
His column oozes with his arrogance.
The following graphs show that Earth is in a brief period of global warming called an interglacial. The longer time spans, the deep troughs are glacial periods. The line that runs across the graphs is the temperature in 1950 and listed as "0" on the left axis.
As can be seen in Figure 1-5, Earth appears ready to move toward another ice age in the cycle.
I'm more concerned with sustaining global warming to offset global cooling and the next ice age.
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This first graph looks bad, doesn't it -- steeper upward temperature trend. Horizontal red line is temperature at 1950.
Figure 1-1 Global warming
The second graph shows today's temperature isn't out of the norm. Horizontal blue line is temperature at 1950.
Figure 1-2 Climate of the last 2400 years
The next graph shows a downtrend in temperatures from 8,000 years ago to today. The down trend is steeper in the recent 2,000 years. From left to right the upper spikes have lower highs while the lower spikes have lower lows. (The same effect can be seen in Figure 1-2, above.)
Figure 1-3 Climate of the last 12,000 years
This graph shows that agriculture and stationary societies emerged 8,000 years ago during a time frame when global temperature was much higher than normal, or average.
Figure 1-4 Climate of the last 100,000 years
The next graph shows that the recent 8,000 years was one of five brief hot spikes when glaciers were at minimums. With much longer troughs when glacials (ice ages) were the norm most of the time.
Figure 1-5 Climate for the last 420 kyr, from Vostok ice
The graph below is reversed. That is, the left side is present day and the right side is 3 million years ago. It shows a 3 million year down trend toward widening extremes in the temperature cycle.
Figure 1-6 Climate for the last 3 million years
The final graph shows CO2 lagging temperature change -- not leading it.
Figure 1-7 CO2 and temperature for the last 450 kyr
When man can cause meaningful global warming yesterday would be a good time to begin thwarting the next ice age.
Great documentary: The Great Global Warming Swindle
No, Neil, we simply do not believe in sacrficing our standard of living to a theory that has as its basis a hatred of Western Civilization and modern technology. Many acknowledge that the earth has, on average, increased its temperature somewhat over the last hundred years or so. The question is, why?
As with every global warming alarmist article, I clicked on the link, loaded the article, hit “Ctrl-F”, typed in “nuclear”. I got the response “Text not found”.
If an article about the horrors of global warming doesn’t include the word “nuclear”, then the author of the scare article doesn’t seriously believe there’s a crisis.
Dear Al,
I am golfing this Thursday in Raleigh, NC and have a 9:30 am tee time. Could you please warm our part of the globe by then so I don’t have to wear a sweater like everybody at the Masters had to this weekend.
Because there's only so much self-righteous shrieking a body can take.
Sounds like he's talking about the global warming crowd instead of the skeptics.
Subject: Protect technological civilization. Fight global warming alarmists.
Hi Mr. Johnson,
I received my Ph.D. from the Biological Sciences Division of the University of Chicago in 2001. I did my thesis and post-doctoral work in neurobiology. I have been following environmental affairs now since the early 1970's. I am appalled at the sheer level of hysteria over global warming that is being fomented through the news broadcasts and in popular science venues. This dwarfs anything seen in the great cancer scare of the 1970s and it has even less scientific foundation than that.
I urge you not to follow in the footsteps of your predecessor, William Ruckelshaus, who unilaterally banned DDT and brought death and destruction to millions of people throughout the lesser-developed world.
It is known that global temperatures fluctuate widely throughout geologic time and correlate very closely with fluctuating solar output. It is known that global atmospheric CO2 levels fluctuate widely throughout geologic time and almost inversely correlate with fluctuating global temperatures (increased CO2 lags increased temperature by up to 800 years). It is known that both current CO2 levels and global temperatures are low compared to previous levels in geologic [history and that average global temperatures have been both much warmer and colder in] human history. It is known that when global temperatures are higher human activity and population increase because the weather is more clement and supportive of increased agriculture. It is known that increased levels of CO2 support crop growth. Based on geological and historical records, it is known that a warmer earth is more beneficial for humans than a colder earth.
Since there is no mechanism whereby increasing and decreasing CO2 levels can affect solar output, the most likely cause/effect scenario is increased solar output leading to increased global temperatures leading to increased CO2 levels and increased human activity.
Since we are already in the latter part of the longest (and coolest) of the last 5 interglacial periods and are more likely than not, based on historical precedent, to be reentering a long period of cooling, and since in this event we will need the advanced technologies and sciences to devise ways to cope with decreasing harvests and more severe weather and climate that characterize a colder global temperature, we need to avoid situations that could adversely impact our current level of technological advancement. Tight regulation of a minor greenhouse gas that comes from activity foundational to modern society could choke the scientific innovation we'll need to meet the challenges of a cooler world.
Because of this, I urge you to resist this latest political assault on advanced Western technology that lies at the heart of the current expression of the modern environmentalist ideology. As mentioned earlier, the previous EPA-led attack on DDT resulted in increased sickness for billions and death for millions. The crusade against CO2 promises to make this outcome minuscule in comparison.
Sincerely,
Of course the global warming media has no problem reporting “Warmest winter in history”, “Hottest summer in 70 years”, “Hottest September ever”, when it fits their global warming agenda. But when we have record cold it is supposedly “irrelevant.”
It’s ironic that only three weeks ago SI was talking about Global Warming and how it was changing sports, now sports writers are complaining about baseball games being scheduled in “cold weather” cities this time of year.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
They love to show pictures of falling polar ice. Oh, wow, look at that: it's ice falling into the ocean, this must mean something....let's get an "expert' in here to tell us what it means.
good post - bttt
Unless they fit the left-wing agenda
They so readily discredit themselves. A few baseball games have been postponed to a later date due to the cold.
This is the URL for the petition drive with a link to the peer reviewed paper therein. "See over 17,000 scientists declare that global warming is a lie with no scientific basis whatsoever."
Here's the URL to the page that has the video link.
Another great documentary is: The Great Global Warming Swindle
i want to turn these into a Power Point presentation Where each chart folds up into the next one. But first I need to buy Power Point. Meanwhile, I bought science project poster boards and do something with that.
Did you see the front page article in the Wall Street Journal? We’re burning our food, leading to shortages.
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