I agree with Pruden, kick me all you want.
Models deliberately programmed to support "Global Warming." 400 Siberian
stations deleted to make the temperature rise.
"Glo-bull" warming, indeed.
David
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas
which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas
which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.*--Thomas
**Jeff**erson*
On 12/17/2013 1:33 PM, [email protected] wrote:
How can the Washington Times justify publishing claptrap like the
following article?
It is well written in terms of English language usage, but that is
where any plaudits
need to end. Here is a an issue that falls under the rubric "science."
Instead, the
whole essay is impressionistic, cherry picks snippets of information
as if they
are definitive, and takes no account of evidence that supports a very
different
viewpoint than that of the author.
When glaciers around the world, including North America, start to grow
again
is the day that I will regard global warming as false, but not one day
before.
no matter how over-the-top and stupid some climate alarmists may be.
Oregon is on track to have the lowest rainfall in recorded weather
history,
a 20+ inch shortfall this year. For the past decade the shortfall has
averaged
around 10 inches. All that our record setting winter storm, just
passed, did,
was to recover about 1 inch of precipitation ( equal to 10 inches of
snow).
Hopefully the past 10 years is a fluke, but this is not good.
Billy
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PRUDEN: The global warming scam that will not die
Dec 16, 2013
By Wesley Pruden <http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/wesley-pruden/>
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The Washington Times
We were all supposed to be dead by now, fried to a toasty potatolike
chip. Or doomed to die with the polar bears. It was to be a soggy end
for the most beautiful planet in the cosmos and for all the passengers
riding on it. The global alarmists never quite got their story of
fright and fear straight, whether by now we would be fried or frozen.
First they warned of global warming, and when they needed a new
narrative "global warming" became "climate change." They finally
settled on something they could prove because the climate does, in
fact, change. First it rains, and then the sun comes out. Then it
rains again. Rain, sun, rain, sun, drip, drip and dry. The narrative
is ever new.
There was always a scarcity of evidence that the globe was on a wild
tear, but there was never a scarcity of alarm. We got bedtime stories
of ghosts and goblins from the graveyard, wild monsters from Boggy
Creek, even a creature from a black lagoon and all kinds of other
things that make the night a time of fearsome fun and games. Al Gore
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/al-gore/>, who had a lot of
time on his hands after his White House
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/white-house/> gig was aborted,
even made a movie about it. It's still popular in certain circles on
Halloween <http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/halloween/> night.
Only 13 years ago (and 13 is the unluckiest of the numbers, which is
pretty scary, too), a scientist at the climate-research unit of
Britain's University of East Anglia
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/university-of-east-anglia/>
predicted that "within a few years' time" a snowfall would be "a vary
rare and exciting event. Children just aren't going to know what snow
is." Some of the newspapers eagerly cooperated with spreading the
"news." One of them reported that for the first time a well-known toy
shop on London's Regent Street had no sleds on display. Who needs
scientific evidence when you have a story like that?
That was then, and this is now, and Britain is huddled against
predictions that 2013-14 will be one of the coldest and wettest
winters in a very long time. "Worst winter for decades," cried the
Daily Express. "Record-breaking snow predicted for November." And so
it came to pass. By the end of November, British teeth were
chattering, and snow, ice and plummeting temperatures were at hand all
across "the sceptr'd isle," and it wasn't yet winter. The kids were
getting lots of lessons in "snow," the snow they were never going to see.
The global-warming hysteria grew quickly after that early prediction
of a scarcity of snow. Certain scientists with more ambition than
sense saw opportunity lying close at hand. With the falling snow could
come falling grants to pay for learned papers. Learned academics have
learned that a feverish alarm, served with a dollop of hysteria, can
move the learned nonsense out of the faculty lounge and into the
newspapers and onto television screens. And not just in Old Blighty,
whence the scam originated.
James Hansen <http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/james-hansen/>,
whose career at NASA gave him the credentials to be taken seriously
even when he didn't sound serious, predicted that in the decade after
2020 the average annual temperature would rise by 9 degrees, with more
heat to come. Soon we would be boiling like lobsters. An ambitious
young man with his sights on medicine or the law might set his sights
higher, and consider a career in fans and air conditioning.
Mr. Hansen <http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/james-hansen/>, in
an op-ed essay in The Washington Post, blames everything on "climate
change" --- the European heat wave of 2003, the Russian heat wave of
2010, catastrophic droughts in Texas and Oklahoma last year. To
discount his view of what's at stake --- a climactic version of hope
and change --- "would be like quitting your job and playing the
lottery every morning to pay the bills."
The admiration Mr. Hansen
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/james-hansen/> and his
like-minded colleagues have for themselves is as breathtaking as their
contempt for all who disagree with them. The more their scam crumbles,
the louder they shout its particulars. Mr. Hansen
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/james-hansen/> says he started
speaking out about climate change again, after a period of relative
reticence, because he did not want his grandchildren to say, "Pa, you
understood what was happening, but you never made it clear." Now that
events are making it clear what a scam global warming really is, those
grandchildren are more likely to say, "Pa, why did you tell all those
fibs and stretchers for so long?"
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