Global Warming (and welcome back Jason!)
I posted a couple of times (over at Savage Republican) some interesting thoughts about global warming that you just don't hear about in the mainstream media. This is more of the same.
First for those who are pointing to this last months heat wave as stone cold "proof" of global warming, consider this:
"From June 1 to August 31, 1930, 21 days had high temperatures that were 100 degrees or above" in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area, Patrick Michaels, senior fellow for environmental studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, told Cybercast News Service. "That summer has never been approached, and it's not going to be approached this year."
Jason Lewis just mentioned (on his new program at KTLK) that we were told emphatically that last years active hurricane season was a direct result of global warming. Hurricane Katrina was almost one year ago. This year - in the hottest summer in years and we just passed Tropical Storm CHRIS!!!! Ummmm if global warming caused the hurricanes last year, why have we not had more hurricanes this year?
Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT take the global warming crowd to task in this article.
"A general characteristic of Mr. Gore's approach is to assiduously ignore the fact that that the earth and its climate are dynamic; that they are always changing even without any external forcing. To treat all change as something to fear is bad enough; to do so in order to exploit that fear is even worse."
Mr. Lindzen is quote here further:
"Mr. Lindzen suggests in the linked article that, not only is there no consensus on the subject — there’s not even any coherent ongoing debate on the topic, among real scientists that is. That could be in part, because the global temperature change over the last 1000 years is only one degree, hardly a "cataclysmic event" demanding immediate attention. It could also be because for every scientist who believes we have a global warming crisis, there is another equally qualified scientist who believes we have a coming ice age crisis on the horizon."
The first article even mentions a "medieval warming period" something I had never even heard mentioned in the discussion. The graphs here show that the medieval warming period actually got hotter FASTER then it has in this period of "global warming". Greenpeace even acknowledges it on their climate impact database! Gee, I wonder why that has never been talked about in the mainstream media?
As I said here, the jury is still out on whether this period of global warming that we are experiencing is a natural, cyclical phenomonon or whether this is something that mankind may (or may not) have caused. Either way, more study is needed - rather than rushing the entire planet into a regressive treaty that is designed to keep the rich (Al Gore) rich and the poor poor.
First for those who are pointing to this last months heat wave as stone cold "proof" of global warming, consider this:
"From June 1 to August 31, 1930, 21 days had high temperatures that were 100 degrees or above" in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area, Patrick Michaels, senior fellow for environmental studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, told Cybercast News Service. "That summer has never been approached, and it's not going to be approached this year."
Jason Lewis just mentioned (on his new program at KTLK) that we were told emphatically that last years active hurricane season was a direct result of global warming. Hurricane Katrina was almost one year ago. This year - in the hottest summer in years and we just passed Tropical Storm CHRIS!!!! Ummmm if global warming caused the hurricanes last year, why have we not had more hurricanes this year?
Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT take the global warming crowd to task in this article.
"A general characteristic of Mr. Gore's approach is to assiduously ignore the fact that that the earth and its climate are dynamic; that they are always changing even without any external forcing. To treat all change as something to fear is bad enough; to do so in order to exploit that fear is even worse."
Mr. Lindzen is quote here further:
"Mr. Lindzen suggests in the linked article that, not only is there no consensus on the subject — there’s not even any coherent ongoing debate on the topic, among real scientists that is. That could be in part, because the global temperature change over the last 1000 years is only one degree, hardly a "cataclysmic event" demanding immediate attention. It could also be because for every scientist who believes we have a global warming crisis, there is another equally qualified scientist who believes we have a coming ice age crisis on the horizon."
The first article even mentions a "medieval warming period" something I had never even heard mentioned in the discussion. The graphs here show that the medieval warming period actually got hotter FASTER then it has in this period of "global warming". Greenpeace even acknowledges it on their climate impact database! Gee, I wonder why that has never been talked about in the mainstream media?
As I said here, the jury is still out on whether this period of global warming that we are experiencing is a natural, cyclical phenomonon or whether this is something that mankind may (or may not) have caused. Either way, more study is needed - rather than rushing the entire planet into a regressive treaty that is designed to keep the rich (Al Gore) rich and the poor poor.
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