Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/30/2008 1:06:46 PM PST by ebayhater
When I began writing about global warming climate change, public outcry was tremendous. Amid a sea of media stories about the sins of our wasteful lifestyle, no one wanted to hear about contradictory research, conflicting data, or skeptical scientists.
Now, over two years later, a funny thing has happened. The roles have shifted. My stories are the staid and ordinary ones. It's the fellows predicting flood, famine, and disaster who are generating all the controversy.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. What happened?
2008 was the year predicted to be the "hottest in a century". Instead it became the coldest of the decade. It was the year the North Pole would "melt entirely, allowing you to swim to it". Instead, nuclear-powered icebreakers became trapped in unseasonably thick ice. It was a year of record-breaking cold and snow, everywhere from Baghdad to the beaches of Malibu. It was the year the "Gore Effect" entered the public vocabulary, as whenever global warming protestors got together to march, they were met with blizzards and ice storms. Let's hope schadenfroh isn't a sin.
Polls are clear. Despite the media's increasingly shrill tone and ever-more unrealistic predictions, the public has lost all faith in global warming. After all, how many times can you say that this time the science is now finally proven, without being laughed at?
In some respects, that's good. It means less chance of implementing incredibly damaging policies, policies that will have disastrous impacts on standards of living, especially among the poor.
In other ways, it's bad. The overselling of inconclusive conjectures as "proven science" is leading some to distrust science itself. Given that, I think the year should conclude with a reminder of just what the scientific debate -- minus its alarmist media trappings-- is really all about...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytech.com ...
Ah, but even NOAA is holding over climate data from previous months, and they say November was the 4th warmest November ever. unseasonable COLD notwithstanding, of course...this is the first White Thanksgiving we’ve had in years up here in the outback of PA.
“...the public has lost all faith in global warming...”????......It never had any..........
What was that study, where people were more worried about clean drinking water than climate change? It was only a couple of years ago...
“Polls are clear. Despite the media’s increasingly shrill tone and ever-more unrealistic predictions, the public has lost all faith in global warming.”
I don’t think is really true. Everything I see repeats the mantra as fact.
It’s obvious to anyone with even the slightest bit of science background that this is a hoax. Yes climate changes, do we know and can we prove how and why — Hell no.
Me, I am fully in the sun’s camp, after studying the solar wind and designing solar measurement instruments that now rest on the moon. Sheeesh, who would think that giant nuclear fusion furnace in the sky would effect Earth.
I wonder, why do we refer to it as a ‘solar system’?
You’re looking at stories in the media. Of course they never interview a skeptic. Talk to real people and you get a different story.
I don’t think the public truly understands that whatever the political class wants, the political class gets...we’re going to get cap and trade, we’re going to be forced to stop driving internal combustion engines, we’re going to pay significantly more for energy...because environmentalists own the next congress and the President.
Yes, correct, my impression is based upon media stories, which of course are near unanimous. You and I give them virtually no weight, I’m sure, but forget not that those same media stories got the annointed one elected and etc; etc; The “real” people I know were never convinced of GW, so they never had to become skeptical..they always were.
Democrats did.
May 2008....PEW Poll
GW is the largest swindle in human history. Simply that.
According to Obama, wouldn't that make the author a denier?
Just 30 Years ago the same people were telling us we were heading for a new ‘ice age’.
‘In Search of’ - The Coming Ice Age (narrated by Leonard Nimoy):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZKtJSlhFsA
Though there's some truth in the article, I have to agree with you.
The war may already have been lost. The Supreme Court has ruled that CO2 can be regulated by the EPA, and there is no telling what we'll get. I'm not sure we can reverse the legal victories the greenies (ok-REDS) have secured for themselves.
Wonder if I'd think it's funny now...
Green Acres was really funny when I was a kid but when watched a video a few years ago I couldn't find a laugh...
I said “say” but I meant to say “saw.”
An ice age may well be on the way:
http://www.dailytech.com/Sun+Makes+History+First+Spotless+Month+in+a+Century/article12823.htm
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