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Ezra Klein Breaks The Internet with Dumb
Charting Course ^ | 2/27/15 | Steve Berman

Posted on 02/27/2015 7:21:41 AM PST by lifeofgrace

Here it is:

When our great grandchildren are dealing with the effects of climate change, they will look at this and hate us: http://t.co/YBv5vM8Kzu

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) February 27, 2015

This is Vox's piece by Brad Plumer depicting Senator James Inhofe tossing a snowball on the Senate floor.  He then segues into more pretty charts showing data from the Climate Change Institute and NOAA.

When will the climate kook-aid drinking liberals get it through their heads?

It's not pretty charts, it's the data behind them that's cooked.

If you use cooked data to make pretty charts, they are still wrong.  Ask professor John Christy what happens when you see the actual data, and come to a different conclusion than the kool-aid, chicken-bone, and tea-leaves portend.

John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, says he remembers the morning he spotted a well-known colleague at a gathering of climate experts. “I walked over and held out my hand to greet him,” Dr. Christy recalled. “He looked me in the eye, and he said, ‘No.’ I said, ‘Come on, shake hands with me.’ And he said, ‘No.’ ”
Can you say "untouchable"?
“I detest words like ‘contrarian’ and ‘denier,’ ” he said. “I’m a data-driven climate scientist. Every time I hear that phrase, ‘The science is settled,’ I say I can easily demonstrate that that is false, because this is the climate — right here. The science is not settled.”

Dr. Christy was pointing to a chart comparing seven computer projections of global atmospheric temperatures based on measurements taken by satellites and weather balloons. The projections traced a sharp upward slope; the actual measurements, however, ticked up only slightly.

Such charts — there are others, sometimes less dramatic but more or less accepted by the large majority of climate scientists — are the essence of the divide between that group on one side and Dr. Christy and a handful of other respected scientists on the other.

In other words, pretty charts are really nice, but the data is not pointing at the cataclysm Ezra Klein and his phalanx of climate change Chicken Littles predict.

I think Sen. Inhofe had it right...there's a snowball's chance in hell (sorry, Oklahoma) that their data is correct.  Sorry, Ezra, our great grandchildren are much more likely to hate us because they are living in caves with no electricity, money, weapons, or food  by following the destructive socialist policies of the Left, than because of climate change.

(crossposted from RedState.com)


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Science
KEYWORDS: climatechange; ezraklein; globalwarminghoax; hockeystick; johnchristy; senatorjamesinhofe
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1 posted on 02/27/2015 7:21:41 AM PST by lifeofgrace
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To: lifeofgrace

Charts are bright shinies for speakers with weak points, whose audiences have small brains and herd-mentality intellects. Failed prop comic also comes to mind...


2 posted on 02/27/2015 7:52:59 AM PST by W. (Dem0crat-mandated education reform killed American progress. Thanks, morons!)
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To: lifeofgrace

Morons like Klein will never “break” internet. They will be given waivers.


3 posted on 02/27/2015 8:01:29 AM PST by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: lifeofgrace

Great grandchildren? I thought he was gay.


4 posted on 02/27/2015 8:05:01 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: W.

https://www.numbersusa.com/video/charts-roy-beck-abridged-version-2010

How about a presentation that really shows something that will effect life in the USA if not gotten under control?


5 posted on 02/27/2015 8:05:24 AM PST by Glad2bnuts
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To: lifeofgrace

What’s a mystery to me .. the group in the UK who perpetrated this HOAX, have already confessed they got it wrong by using “cooked” data.

And still .. the liberals are not ready to let it go. They just changed the title from Global Warming to Climate Change.

Of course the climate is changing .. it changes continually. All you need to do is study the earth’s relation to the Sun, and when the Sun gets closer to the earth .. geeeeee .. we seem to have warmer temps all over the world. Then, when the Sun moves farther away from the earth .. we get colder temps all over the world (such as what we are experiencing now).

I remember living in upstate NY (near lake Ontario) while I was finishing high school. Because I lived “in town”, I was forced to walk through waist-deep snow to get to school. I would have to take a change of clothes with me to school every day, so I didn’t have to stay in my wet clothes all day. Then, I would walk home after school and end up with another set of wet clothes.

That amount of snow is not new .. and it’s not unusual. It’s a constant cycle, depending on the earth’s relation to the Sun. It’s no more complicated than that.

The earth has not WARMED IN 17 YEARS. And .. personally, I believe that may have something to do with the severe winter we are experiencing now. If you want to read the truth .. READ THIS: “RED HOT LIES”; How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed,” By Christopher C. Horner.

This book will fortify you to answer all those who want to foist this corrupt garbage upon America.


6 posted on 02/27/2015 8:07:02 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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To: lifeofgrace
"When our great grandchildren are dealing with the effects of climate change, they will look at this and hate us: Ezra Klein

I agree. Because the only real effects of climate change will be the FEDGOV will spend trillions of dollars and run up the debt in the name of saving us all and our great grandchildren will be paying taxes all their lives for nothing...

7 posted on 02/27/2015 8:07:28 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: lifeofgrace
Ezra is a Raw Data Denier!

It has now been documented that all the reports that showing the planet warming have massaged and adjusted the Raw Clean Data.

8 posted on 02/27/2015 8:50:07 AM PST by TexasCajun
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9 posted on 02/27/2015 9:00:55 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: CyberAnt

Actually, although your main point is correct, the distance to the sun is inversely related to warmth

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/12/the-earth-is-hottest-when-it-is-furthest-from-the-sun-on-its-orbit-not-when-it-is-closest/


10 posted on 02/27/2015 9:11:31 AM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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Well .. that makes absolutely perfect sense .. the closer you are to the HEAT .. the colder it will be and vice versa ..?? WHAT ..??

Is that the trash you are trying to sell me ..??

I’m never going to buy that.


11 posted on 02/27/2015 10:26:46 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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To: lifeofgrace

Ezra Klein, mob mouthpiece. Nothing more.


12 posted on 02/27/2015 10:29:03 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: CyberAnt

One can teach algebra to a horse. It doesn’t mean the horse will learn anything; I’ve only been an amateur astronomer for thirty years.


13 posted on 02/27/2015 4:07:58 PM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: muir_redwoods

Well .. GOD created the heavens and the earth .. so I’d go for logic instead of pie in the sky prognostications.

That way .. it would only be logical that if the sun is closer to the earth, then we should be having warmer weather. And .. therefore, if the sun is farther away from the earth .. logically it should mean that our weather would be cooler.

GOD is logical. Maybe you should purchase a DVD called, “The Privileged Planet”. It’s such an amazing video. The Earth is actually in the most perfect spot in the universe in order to explore the rest of the solar system. If our orbit was just a little bit one way, we might be as icy as Mars; or if we were just a little bit the other way, we would burn up. We are privileged to live on such a beautiful planet.

I didn’t study astronomy .. I just had a nephew who was a space junky. Worked at Edwards Air Base .. and helped to get me interested in the whole space stuff. I just know GOD didn’t make a mistake when he created this earth .. he created it for humans to live on. Because I believe that .. I just can’t buy some of the crazy stuff out there today.


14 posted on 02/27/2015 7:30:19 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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To: CyberAnt

Maybe you should study the actual observations made by astronomers since the time of Kepler. It isn’t only distance but the angle of incidence that governs how much solar energy lands on the planet. This isn’t a matter of conjecture, opinion or consensus. The earth is two to three million miles closer to the sun on January fifth than on July tenth.

The night side of mercury is seventy million miles closer to the sun than we are and hundreds of degrees colder.


15 posted on 02/28/2015 3:11:52 AM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: muir_redwoods

Good luck with all YOU KNOW. Sadly, you left out the Creator of the Universe; Who could have taught you much more.

The day you accept Him as your Savior, He will reveal so much information to you .. it will boggle your mind.


16 posted on 02/28/2015 3:29:27 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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To: CyberAnt

Fine. The distances are still as I indicated, once you accept that you’ll be a bit more educated; never a bad thing.


17 posted on 02/28/2015 5:38:11 PM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: muir_redwoods

Excuse me .. I’m already “educated” thank you. My degree is hanging on the wall buddy ..!!!!!

Where do you get off saying nothing but insulting stuff to everybody .. what the hell is that all about ..?? If you have a bad attitude, take it somewhere else.


18 posted on 02/28/2015 9:36:47 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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To: CyberAnt

When did I insult you? If you learn something new, does that not make you more educated? I don’t hang any of my three degrees on the wall but degrees don’t make someone educated now, do they? I was able to add to your understanding of the solar system just a bit and you’ve done nothing but act as if Ive somehow offended you. I’m too well raised to show you how I react to petty ingratitude but why don’t you bother someone who might actually care what you think?


19 posted on 03/01/2015 3:17:26 AM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: muir_redwoods

Well .. obviously you do .. you keep sending me msgs.


20 posted on 03/01/2015 1:59:57 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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