Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/29/2008 10:25:41 AM PDT by StACase
It's almost a point of pride with climatologists. Whenever someplace is hit with a heat wave, drought, killer storm or other extreme weather, scientists trip over themselves to absolve global warming. No particular weather event, goes the mantra, can be blamed on something so general. Extreme weather occurred before humans began loading up the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. So this storm or that heat wave could be the result of the same natural forces that prevailed 100 years ago—random movements of air masses, unlucky confluences of high- and low-pressure systems—rather than global warming.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Newsweek is a complete joke along with their television partner MSNBC. Who takes these idiots seriously? This entire global warming campaign is nothing but a swindle on the global economy.
Nothing else.
The 90s had the Internet...the 00’s have Global Warming.
I wonder what the 10’s will have?
She's a real scientician-person.
When asked if journalists should be more interpretive or analytical in their climate change reporting Begley said, “It depends …When you cover the history of the space program, you don’t quote the percentage of Americans who think the moon landings took place on a stage in Arizona.”
The August 13 report written by Begley described global-warming skepticism as a “well-coordinated, well-funded campaign by contrarian scientists, free-market think tanks and industry [that] has created a paralyzing fog of doubt around climate change.”
Begley reiterated her blatant bias in an online chat hosted by Newsweek. She dismissed skepticism in a question that asked how “responsible media [can] best meet their ‘fairness/accuracy/’balance’ responsibilities in dealing with climate change deniers.”
“[M]e, I don’t do he said/she said, but delve into the arguments and see which has empirical merit,” Begley wrote. “It’s not that hard.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,273076,00.html
Thursday, May 17, 2007
By Brit Hume
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Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine:
“State of Denial”
The senior science editor at Newsweek magazine has suggested that President Bush is mentally ill — writing that he is “in a state of denial” over the Iraq war.
Sharon Begley offers as proof the president’s insistence the war will succeed, despite what she calls “setback after setback.” She continues: “While it’s always risky to psychoanalyze a politician from afar, a few things in his past are consistent with the capacity for denial.”
She offers up the fact that as a seven-year-old boy, the president tried to comfort his mother after his baby sister died of leukemia. Begley writes: “The tip-off for denial is perpetual optimism, a pathological certainty that things are going well.” She also cites the fact that Mr. Bush has battled alcohol abuse, saying such people, “typically need to see the world in black and white in order to stay on the wagon.”
But Begley has no formal education or training in the field of mental health that we could find. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Yale — in combined sciences.
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http://newsbusters.org/people/sharon-begley
Next, the looney left will tell us that the moon is made of cheese....
Fast forward to today:
... sounds of crickets chirping ...
Now they say "Hurricanes have become more powerful due to global warming."
Droughts: Global warming.
Floods: Global warming.
Blizzards: Global warming.
They will adapt global warming to fit whatever they want.
OK, the temperature in Indiana is 12 degrees below normal today; would she attribute this to global warming as well?
Sharon Begley offers as proof the president’s insistence the war will succeed, despite what she calls “setback after setback.”
Wow, NewsWeak? Talk about a source of zero credibility.
That is exactly what she says in the article. That global warming caused the jet stream to shift and dip south, pulling moisture from the Gulf of Mexico up to the Midwest. When the jet stream dips south, temperatures north of it drop.
The solar equatorial convection currents, aka the N and S solar conveyor belts, are slowing to levels never seen before. Less plasma convection = less magnetism which = lower solar flux and a less energetic solar wind. It all adds up to an extended cold period which we are entering.
Last winter was colder than the previous, this winter will be colder than last, the following winter will be colder still. You get the picture. The Libs are saying one thing while doing another aka willfully lying and profiting from their deception.
“They will adapt global warming to fit whatever they want”
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Yup, they are about as credible as those who believe the moon landings were staged.
Human caused global warming only exists in the complex and easily manipulated computer models concocted by politically motivated scientists to promote the scam. Common sense and basic logic indicate that it is natural forces that cause climate change, not the relatively miniscule amount of C02 put out by human activity.
http://www.rocketscientistsjournal.com/2006/10/co2_acquittal.html
Watch it Buddy! You're talking to a Wisconsinite here.
Regards,
GtG
PS You mean it's not Gorgonzola?
PPS How 'bout a nice ripe Munster?
PPPS White Cheddar?
LOL
I used to live in WI, no disrespect, it is sad we aren’t the dairy state anymore, cause stupid CA took the “happy cow’s” away from us
Hey! This isn't rocket surgery!
So basically, an argument is created whereby all weather patterns that are not the norm are the fault of global warming...If the temp is 15 degrees above normal or below it, global warming is the culprit.
My best farm is bottomland. Were it not for floods from time immemorial, this ground wouldn’t be flat and wouldn’t be fertile.
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