The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. -- 13 times the number who authored the U.N.'s 2007 climate summary for policymakers. Joanne Simpson, the world's first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak "frankly" of her nonbelief. Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming "the worst scientific scandal in history." Norway's Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the "new religion." A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton's Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists' open letter.)
The collapse of the "consensus" has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. "
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Oh now, now, now. We can't have the truth. It would upset the delicate balance between the anti-capitalists and their socialist brethren in the body politic.
Besides, it is far more entertaining to watch the global warming, excuse me, climate change cultists run around squawking that the "sky is falling."
What if the "sky is falling"? You guys will have done nothing but put road blocks in the way of the activists. If you don't believe in global warming then at least be quiet about it. Your resistance makes it easier to do nothing and nothing will get us less trees, polluted water and air,etc.
Of course, there's always the "Cap and Trade" bill to come to our rescue. What, you don't want the state inspecting your house and then perhaps requiring thousands of dollars of un-reimbursed energy upgrades?
http://www.americanissuesproject.org/blogs/aip/archive/2009/07/08/if-you-don-t-hate-the-cap-and-trade-bill-let-me-show-you-section-304.aspx
The whole climate change/global warming crusade picked Gore for good reason. He was the poster boy for the anti-Bush crowd. The guy who got "cheated" out of the Presidency. He was already the darling of the left and Europe. What better guy to have as the climate spokesman.
Gore was a second-rate politician and a limousine liberal, living in his massive mansion. He gets the Colorado river flooded just so he can have a photo op in his canoe. What a phony.
Don't tell me that I need to change my lightbulbs.
What if the "sky is falling"?
Are you serious?
What are you...three years old?
You ask "What if the sky is falling?"
I ask you...
What if "pigs can fly"?
What if "the moon landing was a hoax"?
What if "aliens are living amongst us"?
What if "the bogeyman is coming to get you"?
What if "monsters lived under the bed"?
What if "you stepped on a crack and it broke your mother's back"?
What if "you rearranged the furniture in your house in a certain way and received positive energy and become healthy wealthy and wise"?
What if "you blew out all of the candles on your birthday cake and your wish came true"?
What if "you actually became more attractive when you got drunk"?
What if "Friday the 13th was really an evil day"?
What if "renaming the 13th floor in a building to 14 actually made it the 14th floor"?
What if "you walked under a ladder and got bad luck"?
What if "you broke a mirror and got 7 years of bad luck"?
What if "had to buy me a coke if you said the exact same thing that I said at the exact same time"?
What if "the groom saw the bride before the wedding and got bad luck"?
What if "there was luck"?
What if "you ate a watermelon seed and it grew in your stomach"?
What if "you threw a coin into a body of water and your wishes came true"?
What if "you told someone your wish and it didn't come true"?
...need I go on?
Oh and finally...
What if you are wrong and implementing these Global Warming initiatives actually were detrimental to the economy and the environment and actually had the reverse effect intended?
OMG! Somebody should tell the G8 Summit because they are talking about this today.
What if "you rearranged the furniture in your house in a certain way and received positive energy and become healthy wealthy and wise"?
::Note to Self:::
Rearrange furniture then buy lottery ticket!
to 3:31AM: I'll rephrase my initial comment. You are wrong.
"You guys will have done nothing but put road blocks in the way of the activists. If you don't believe in global warming then at least be quiet about it." 10:30
Ok, Daffy Duck, what don't you get? Those so called "road blocks" come from legitimate scientists who opposition the pseudo science and political sophistry used to propagate this silly theory of "global warming." Why would any rational person "be quiet" about something that is so patently false, whose believers would inflict great economic harm upon us all with their half-baked remedies.
By the way, there are more trees now in the US then in 1900. Go look it up. It's true. So, I urge you, print this post and help keep a worker in the paper industry employed.
The same people who deny climate change also want to teach creationism instead of evolution in public schools.
So much for "facts" and "science"!
5:14pm
You are wrong. I was one of the first folks to recycle, but lets not be stupid.
Let's not tax the poor by raising electricity prices.
Let's not kill the birds by putting up windmills. (Did you know that cute little birds get chopped up in those blades?)
Let's not starve children by using corn for ethanol.
71 degrees last night at 7pm...
Oh, hey Charlie/5:14, long time no read!
Now go scratch.
Dear 4:39, I hope you hold no position of power so that your ideas will die here on the blog.
Screw the global climate change warming crap. I prefer the old argument about whether or not the earth is flat. How long did that one last??
"What if the "sky is falling"? You guys will have done nothing but put road blocks in the way of the activists. If you don't believe in global warming then at least be quiet about it. Your resistance makes it easier to do nothing and nothing will get us less trees, polluted water and air,etc."
Ah yes... the classic response of the shallow and mis-informed when confronted by facts and figures... CENSOR and SUPPRESS.
All of your whining and denial isn't going to make the facts change 10:30PM (or should I call you by your given name -- Scarecrow (pre-Oz visit of course), Global Warming is a farce to provide money, power and self-worth for Al Gore and give him something to do).
9:39 PM,
The environmental crowd is the same old group of leftists from the 70's & 80's who were once the pawns of the Soviets. Now, since their masters imploded and have gone capitalist on them, they have found a new vehicle that they believe will bring about downfall of our evil democratic capitalism system.
Again, confusing climate change (a pattern which had been documented for over 1,000 years) with the current weather on your back patio is not science.
Believeing that the world was flat did not make it flat.
These climate change people must know the rest of us are totally on to them. This is one of the greatest hoaxes ever. Bernie Madoff only stole some 50 billion. These guys want to make off with a hundred times that. How come they are not ashamed? Thou shalt not steal you assinine limosine liberals and pinko environmentalists! What a scam.
Al Gore should have been president, environmentalists aren't communists and the world isn't flat. But you guys would have been the ones saying it was because change for you represents something bad. You don't realize how uninformed you sound and how out of the mainstream you really are.
Once again, I don't need to run my AC today. I had a lovely night's sleep last night with the windows open. We're getting quite a break this summer.
No that's an inconvenient truth.
For heaven's sake, stop thinking that paid boneheads like Al Gore are being impartially honest.
Global warming and local weather are not the same.
Global warming and local weather are not the same.
Global warming and local weather are not the same.
Global warming and local weather are not the same.
Global warming and local weather are not the same.
Learn about Global Climate Change. Open your eyes to the world outside of Ridgewood.
Environmentalism is the religion of choice for urban atheists.
There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for us all. We are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of the environment.
7:15
What you don't realize is that you are being fooled.
You have to be old to remember other false doomsday claims.
1. World Population Explosion and Starvation
Thirty years ago we were going to run out of space on the planet by 2050. Now we hear about the coming crisis of world economy from a shrinking population.
2. Half of all species on the planet will be extinct by 2000.
3. DDT is a carcinogen.
DDT is not a carcinogen and did not cause birds to die and should never have been banned. The DDT ban has caused the deaths of tens of millions of poor people, mostly children, whose deaths are directly attributable to a callous, technologically advanced western society that promoted the new cause of environmentalism by pushing a fantasy about a pesticide, and thus irrevocably harmed the third world.
1154 lying even if tyou say it over and over dosnt make it true ie...ask the dinosours about climate change ,no joke the weather changes duh !!!
"Believeing that the world was flat did not make it flat."
Here fixed that fer ya...(multiple choice edition)
"Believeing in Global Warming does not make it true."
"Believeing you can cause significant changes to Global Climate does not make it true."
"Believeing in changing the name of your religion from Global Warming to Climate Change when the science and facts don't support your belief does not make it any less of a religion."
"Global warming and local weather are not the same."
Hate to break it to you, but the weather is LOCAL everywhere on the planet. Just because you may not be there to see it, doesn't make it any less local to its location.
Another reason why you people sound so silly is that weather and warming are not "global." These things happen intermittently -- in time spans great and small -- at different locations and are largely due to sun spot activity which has great impact on our weather. Yes, our WEATHER!
Weather and climate are not the same... but climate is made of millions of days of weather.
Global and local are not the same... but "global" is made of millions of "locals".
That's an obvious starting point. But when you say "...you people sound so sill...," it's hard to tell WHICH "side" you are referring to, because you failed to make a point!
So, which side am I on? Well...
Global Warming was an unsustainable myth, smoothly switched to Climate Change to try to avoid people noticing the bullshit they were being fed. Climate change being primarily caused by humans is a shaky theory. Climate change being a one-way path to disaster is worse than a shaky theory, because life has always overcome past climate changes, in one form or another. Climate change being a man-made path to disaster, which we can avoid by reducing carbon emissions, is shaky built on shaky with a demonstrable falsehood on top.
The evidence shows atmospheric carbon does NOT cause widespread warming, rather the reverse is true.
Yes, there are some "you people" here looking very silly - the ones who chant the religion they have been fed in the media, without looking at the facts.
Just because your favourite news reader says something does NOT make it true. He's not even a climatologist! He says what he's PAID to say!
So do some of the so-called scientists who speak the establishment line.
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