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January 22, 2007
Global Warming Backpedaling
Global warming cultists have gotten so carried away with their Chicken Little rhetoric that they're going to have to start backpedaling if they expect people to take them seriously.
Even the hardly conservative Houston Chronicle observes that two of the events that helped win over the gullible — Katrina and last year's warm summer — hardly constitute proof of Al Gore's hysterical predictions. If global warming caused Katrina, where were all the hurricanes last year? Whose SUVs caused summers to be even hotter in the 1930s?
Inevitably, the hyperbolic hype is falling in on itself. As climate scientist Kevin Vranes of the University of Colorado puts it:
Some of us are wondering if we have created a monster.
Despite stern insistence by leftist fanatics that there is no debate, scientists who won't drink the Kool-Aid are raising their voices. Says Judith Curry, an atmospheric scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology:
I think the rank-and-file are becoming more outspoken, and you're hearing a broader spectrum of ideas.
A broad spectrum of ideas is the last thing Al Gore wants. He recently canceled an interview with Denmark's largest newspaper Jyllands-Posten, apparently because the paper would also publish the views of global warming skeptic Bjorn Lomborg.
Avoiding contradictory views is a priority for Gore, who is standing on thinner ice than any polar bear. His grand scheme to remake human civilization would make the average person 30% poorer by 2100, and cost $553 TRILLION over the next century. People might start to wonder if it's worth it, once they consider that Gore's threatened 20-foot rise in sea level is exaggerated by a factor of 20, that his tale of global warming causing malaria in Nairobi is simply a lie, that only 2% of Antarctica has actually gotten warmer over the last 35 years, that global warming would save 10 times more lives than it would end in the UK, and that the computer models they use to invent scary scenarios could just as easily prove that the world is turning into a lump of Velveeta.
On tips from Monsoon and V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 22, 2007 1:00 PM
Comments
But ManBearPig is real! I'm totally cereal, guys.
Posted by: Al Gore at January 22, 2007 1:09 PM
Gosh, I love this website! I love the way you tell it like it is. There is no such thing as global warming. The (unbiased) science simply does not exist to support the notion that the planet is warming because of man. There is no evidence that it is-in fact it is cooling right now as speak. Take a look at this: http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse
Posted by: Chris at January 22, 2007 3:56 PM
I think there is Global Warming, and there is Global Cooling... It's just been going on for many many centuries, and we do have a little effect on it... but Earth has dealt with a lot more crap than us; I mean, volcanos do way more damage than we could ever do, and yet the planet is healthy...
heh, those guys me up XD
Posted by: Dave at January 22, 2007 4:01 PM
Al Gore knows ManBearPig is real because he is from an identical planet to Earth with no pollution and no ManBearPig.
Posted by: MB at January 22, 2007 5:04 PM
You may "think" that there is "global warming" but that doesn't mean there is. It isn't backed up by science. You are correct that the planet warms and cools by itself, but there is simply no evidence whatsoever that we have contributed to it-most of the warming took place long before the industrial revolution.
Posted by: Chris at January 22, 2007 6:27 PM
Pardon me Dave, I misinterpreted your statement-I mostly agree.
Posted by: Chris at January 22, 2007 6:29 PM
And here I thought "global warming" was nothing more than the opposite of the common climate phenomenon known as:
"when hell freezes over"
Posted by: Anonymous at January 22, 2007 9:40 PM
...and that the computer models they use to invent scary scenarios could just as easily prove that the world is turning into a lump of Velveeta.
HA! You kill me! Bring on the warming! This winter absolutely sucks in Austin. We just had the longest ice storm in decades...
Posted by: jimbo at January 23, 2007 6:06 AM
If global warming caused by man turns out to be a fraud, Al Gore is out of a job...hence his vigilance in trying to silence his critics.
Posted by: Pam at January 23, 2007 7:20 AM
There most certainly IS global warming--and global cooling. And both are controlled by the giant thermo-nuclear explosion know as the sun.
Posted by: nikkolai at January 23, 2007 10:08 AM
Word has it that the Martian polar ice caps are shrinking...well for at least since we have been able to measure them. So I guess we need to refer to this phenom as Solar System warming...or maybe Milky Way warming or perhaps Universe warming.
Face it gloom and doom sells. TV weather broadcasting has become ratings driven fear mongering. They have learned from the ratings that more people tune in during a threating storm than during a week of bright and sunny!That is precisely what influenced the 06 Hurricane season predictions to be "sold" as "worst ever".
Posted by: Dave at January 23, 2007 11:01 AM
You better bet your ass that if the planet cools significantly, it'll do 1000x more damage than anything warming could do. Warming, in fact, is what gave rise to Agriculture and Civilization. Cooling, oh yea, that gets you lovely things like mass starvation and rampant disease. Anyone remember The Black Death and the fact it came through Europe twice, once in the 540s or so (causing the resurgent Roman Empire, under the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, to collapse) and again in the 1300s. Yea, nothing like wiping out as much as 1/3 of the world's population (Europe, Africa and Asia) in one fell swoop.
Posted by: Brooklyn Red Leg at January 23, 2007 1:44 PM
Edit: Oh yea, nikkolai is also 100% right. That giant ball of hydrogen (and other assorted elements) undergoing nuclear fusion is the reason for most of the warming/cooling. Better hope we don't go through another phase of intense sunspot activity anytime soon. Else that vomitous mass of slime (aka Al Gore) will have to snuggle with the polar bears that will be camped out in his Tennessee home.
Posted by: Brooklyn Red Leg at January 23, 2007 1:47 PM
"There most certainly IS global warming--and global cooling. And both are controlled by the giant thermo-nuclear explosion know as the sun."
I knew it! I knew that NUKES were behind it all!
OK, seriously now.
What may have started the whole "global warming" panic is that some IDIOT got hold of some Climatologist's note on a "what if" seanario. You see, like the military, scientists often make up "what if" plans: (General) "what if we invaded Japan?" (Scientist) "what if bats WERE blind?" for instance.
In today's paper they had a few global warming stories and in one a European scientist said that "if the warming trend continues", the glacers in Switzerland will be gone by 2050. But of course, the moonbats will ignore the all-important "IF".
Posted by: KHarn at January 23, 2007 8:54 PM
Better hope we don't go through another phase of intense sunspot activity anytime soon.
I thought it was sunspot inactivity (minima) that led to global cooling?
I'm not one of those people who proclaims "more trees, fewer people," but the prospect of the entire Green movement being wiped out by glaciation warms my heart.
Posted by: V the K at January 24, 2007 7:53 AM
thought it was sunspot inactivity (minima) that led to global cooling?
Oops. So it is. I stand corrected my good man! The Maunder Minimum is when Sunspot activity drops, resulting in a cooling trend. There is also the fact that, IIRC, our orbit around the Sun is eratic at times, which could also cause a climate shift for the worse. Anyway, cooling is BAD.
Posted by: Brooklyn Red Leg at January 24, 2007 7:20 PM
