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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:52 pm Post subject: Alarmist GW claims melt under scientific scrutiny |
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The following story is linked on Drudge and is liable to make some waves. Hopefully Gore and his global warming cult will feel the heat...
| Quote: | Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny
June 30, 2007
BY JAMES M. TAYLOR
In his new book, The Assault on Reason, Al Gore pleads, "We must stop tolerating the rejection and distortion of science. We must insist on an end to the cynical use of pseudo-studies known to be false for the purpose of intentionally clouding the public's ability to discern the truth." Gore repeatedly asks that science and reason displace cynical political posturing as the central focus of public discourse.
If Gore really means what he writes, he has an opportunity to make a difference by leading by example on the issue of global warming.
A cooperative and productive discussion of global warming must be open and honest regarding the science. Global warming threats ought to be studied and mitigated, and they should not be deliberately exaggerated as a means of building support for a desired political position.
Many of the assertions Gore makes in his movie, ''An Inconvenient Truth,'' have been refuted by science, both before and after he made them. Gore can show sincerity in his plea for scientific honesty by publicly acknowledging where science has rebutted his claims.
For example, Gore claims that Himalayan glaciers are shrinking and global warming is to blame. Yet the September 2006 issue of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate reported, "Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, confounding global warming alarmists who recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and that global warming was to blame."
Gore claims the snowcap atop Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro is shrinking and that global warming is to blame. Yet according to the November 23, 2003, issue of Nature magazine, "Although it's tempting to blame the ice loss on global warming, researchers think that deforestation of the mountain's foothills is the more likely culprit. Without the forests' humidity, previously moisture-laden winds blew dry. No longer replenished with water, the ice is evaporating in the strong equatorial sunshine."
Gore claims global warming is causing more tornadoes. Yet the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in February that there has been no scientific link established between global warming and tornadoes.
Gore claims global warming is causing more frequent and severe hurricanes. However, hurricane expert Chris Landsea published a study on May 1 documenting that hurricane activity is no higher now than in decades past. Hurricane expert William Gray reported just a few days earlier, on April 27, that the number of major hurricanes making landfall on the U.S. Atlantic coast has declined in the past 40 years. Hurricane scientists reported in the April 18 Geophysical Research Letters that global warming enhances wind shear, which will prevent a significant increase in future hurricane activity.
Gore claims global warming is causing an expansion of African deserts. However, the Sept. 16, 2002, issue of New Scientist reports, "Africa's deserts are in 'spectacular' retreat . . . making farming viable again in what were some of the most arid parts of Africa."
Gore argues Greenland is in rapid meltdown, and that this threatens to raise sea levels by 20 feet. But according to a 2005 study in the Journal of Glaciology, "the Greenland ice sheet is thinning at the margins and growing inland, with a small overall mass gain." In late 2006, researchers at the Danish Meteorological Institute reported that the past two decades were the coldest for Greenland since the 1910s.
Gore claims the Antarctic ice sheet is melting because of global warming. Yet the Jan. 14, 2002, issue of Nature magazine reported Antarctica as a whole has been dramatically cooling for decades. More recently, scientists reported in the September 2006 issue of the British journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series A: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, that satellite measurements of the Antarctic ice sheet showed significant growth between 1992 and 2003. And the U.N. Climate Change panel reported in February 2007 that Antarctica is unlikely to lose any ice mass during the remainder of the century.
Each of these cases provides an opportunity for Gore to lead by example in his call for an end to the distortion of science. Will he rise to the occasion? Only time will tell.
James M. Taylor is senior fellow for environment policy at the Heartland Institute.
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Deuce
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:36 am Post subject: |
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Good find Me#1,
As I write this, the History Channel is showing " Little Ice Age, Big Chill". In it it covers England's Ice Fairs running from 1607 to the 1800's. The measured European temps were about 4 degrees cooler....Europeans called it 'planetary' but in reality just Northern Europe was affected. Ya'd think that with history providing such facts that planets (and sections of planets) get warmer or cooler .... we'd lose our parochial sense of ME that says I'm the center of the universe so what's happening to me is universal!
Ain't gonna happen...'fan forecasts' will survive the next Ice Age! (a fan forecast for those that care is simply the fact that we forecast from 'today'...and believe it or not, my 'today' might be different from your today!)
Think I'll go watch the rest of the 'Gorebal Cooling' special
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fortdixlover
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:31 am Post subject: |
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A BU professor, I believe, recently wrote a piece sugesting that "climate change" has to do with periodic dimming and brightening of the sun. Considering the sun goes through 11-year sunspot cycles (appx.), and that we understand almost nothing as to why, I can believe it also undergoes other cycles.
However, my largest reason for skepticism about "global warming" is that leftists have lost the ability to think logically, or believe thinking logically is unnecessary and confining.
As an example, I might say that I believe the reason for global warming is the expulsion of hot air from the mouths of the left since the volume is incredible.
See, that's scientific proof, right?
-- FDL
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I'm reading The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Enviromentalism - this is one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated upon humanity.
I had forgotten about it until I picked up this book, but the book reminds us that back in the 70's science had just about unanimously "proved" that we were about to enter another Ice Age, maybe the worst one our planet had ever seen.
If we fall for this pseudo-science sleight of hand, we are too stupid to live and we deserve whatever we get - this is absolutely nothing but smoke and mirrors.
And money.
Big, huge, stupefying, almost incomprehensible amounts of money.
If you're at all worried that Algore might be right, just get this book. You'll be ticked off when you get started reading it, but at least you won't be tricked into believing this silly doomsday scenario.
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BuffaloJack
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:01 am Post subject: |
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Back 30 years ago I actually remember liberal scientists putting forth plans to dust the Earth's ice caps with millions of pounds of soot so that the ice would not reflect as much of the sun's energy back into space. This was the plan to prevent the onset of a new Ice Age.
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