Posted on 08/17/2007 7:18:52 PM PDT by Reform Canada
JEFF JACOBY Hot tempers on global warming By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | August 15, 2007 First of two parts INTRODUCING Newsweek's Aug. 13 cover story on global warming "denial," editor Jon Meacham brings up an embarrassing blast from his magazine's past: an April 1975 story about global cooling, and the coming ice age that scientists then were predicting. Meacham concedes that "those who doubt that greenhouse gases are causing significant climate change have long pointed to the 1975 Newsweek piece as an example of how wrong journalists and researchers can be." But rather than acknowledge that the skeptics may have a point, Meacham dismisses it. "On global cooling," he writes, "there was never anything even remotely approaching the current scientific consensus that the world is growing warmer because of the emission of greenhouse gases." Really? Newsweek took rather a different line in 1975. Then, the magazine reported that scientists were "almost unanimous" in believing that the looming Big Chill would mean a decline in food production, with some warning that "the resulting famines could be catastrophic." Moreover, it said, "the evidence in support of these predictions" -- everything from shrinking growing seasons to increased North American snow cover -- had "begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it." Yet Meacham, quoting none of this, simply brushes aside the 1975 report as "alarmist" and "discredited." Today, he assures his readers, Newsweek's climate-change anxieties rest "on the safest of scientific ground." Do they?
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***”On global cooling,” he writes, “there was never anything even remotely approaching the current scientific consensus that the world is growing warmer because of the emission of greenhouse gases.” ***
If it’s concensus, it ain’t scientific. Science deals with FACT, not concensus.
Very hard to be consistent and faithful when your religion (global warming) has no God.
The truth is that global warming would be far more benevolent to mankind than global cooling.
we are talking about 1.8 degrees over 100 years...
does anyone else find that to be remarkably stable?
I sure as hell do.
It’s about a Fabian Socialist agenda. Evidence and facts mean nothing. Mis-leading the Sheeple means everything.
Global warming enthusiasts are "nen of zeal", to be sure. And clearly "without understanding".
But "well-meaning"? I'm not so sure...
There are the power-trippers, the crooks and the dupes. Which, do you suppose, is Algore...???
I agree with you...smart point.
Global warming caused by humans is not universally accepted among qualified scientists. And if Al Hore thinks we can do anything about it, well, he should have said that in 1900 because the world is based on oil, and that isn’t gonna change for a long time.
Even the worst characterizations of McCarthy by the Left are minimal compared to the fundamentalist, jihad like religious fervor of the warm-mongers. In rhetoric at least, and thankfully not action, they are rapidly approaching demanding adherence to dogma unseen since the Spanish Inquisition.
Before that it was wood and coal heating the American home. How much pollution do you think that caused?
NOT ONE MENTION of the NASA temperature manipulation and coverup scandal.
[does anyone else find that to be remarkably stable?]
Especially when the temperature range in our science ranges from Abaolute zero (-273 deg. C- -459F) to a hot coffee temp on the sun of a few million degrees F/C, who’s counting?
Our earths temperature ranges from -100F or so at pole extremes to +140F or so in equatorial climes. So 1.8 degrees is a pimple on Algores sizeable butt!
I am so tired of this fake “issue”.
am I wrong?
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