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Posted on 06/26/2009 11:47:36 AM PDT by Maelstorm
Kimberley Strassel at the Wall Street Journal has a great piece on the global warming debate and how Al Gore’s much-professed “consensus” has crumbled to ruin.
Her article lists a number of people who are no longer following Al Gore’s herd on the issue of anthropogenic global warming, and also provides some insight into how this fragile “consensus” has been devastated by science over conjecture and hysteria:
In April, the Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming. In the Czech Republic, where President Vaclav Klaus remains a leading skeptic, today only 11% of the population believes humans play a role. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to tap Claude Allegre to lead the country’s new ministry of industry and innovation. Twenty years ago Mr. Allegre was among the first to trill about man-made global warming, but the geochemist has since recanted. New Zealand last year elected a new government, which immediately suspended the country’s weeks-old cap-and-trade program.
The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. — 13 times the number who authored the U.N.’s 2007 climate summary for policymakers. Joanne Simpson, the world’s first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak “frankly” of her nonbelief. Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming “the worst scientific scandal in history.” Norway’s Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the “new religion.” A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton’s Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists’ open letter.)
Proof of concensus or lack thereof is not an indication of the reliability of a given position; after all, the majority has been proved wrong countless times throughout history, and someone has to be the first person to be right about a new conclusion.
But when you have a situation where the more information we have on a given contention, the fewer people buy into that contention, well, that speaks powerfully that the contention was a bad one from the start.
I have long said that the contention that human activity–over more obvious and more powerful natural forces–is having a significant impact on global temperatures just doesn’t pass the smell test.
To put it another way, it seems as if Occam’s Razor has been forgotten in the modern world’s infatuation with wild and exciting ideas. In case you’re not familiar with Occam’s Razor, it is a principle that basically says assumptions should be avoided where ever possible. Or to put it in plain language, of all reasonable explanations for a phenomenon, the simplest is usually the correct one.
Sadly, objective examinations of information and assumptive restraint have been abandoned in today’s world in favor of politically correct agendas which are fueled by protection of reputation and ego. In other words, instead of behaving like objective investigators, our modern scientific and legislative community behaves like teenagers caught up in herd-instinct pursuit of “the right clothes” or “the right CD” or “the right look.”
I can only hope a sufficient number of the American people wake up to the reality that the theory of AGW stinks…and that they get ticked off enough to wake up a sufficient number of representatives in congress to stop this mad rush to destruction before it’s too late.
thank G*d for that. That would sock the economy a blow it doesn’t need.
Don’t you know that “every study” and “every bit of evidence” supports what Obama believes?
Global Warming Consensus Gone Up in Flames
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Good news... but don’t “lay back”...
Y’all... go and check out Maelstorm’s other thread...
The Great Global Warming Swindle (2007)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280109/posts
Those that don't are racist.
Source, please? Not all rumors are equal.
Rush mumbled something about it.
It would certainly do that. What I find outrageous is that some of the supporters admit it, and say that “now is just not the time.” If a person can see that clearly, then why would there ever be “the right time?”
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“the right CD”
Dude, this guy is soooo five minutes agew...
Colonel, USAFR (my daughters will cringe when they read this! HAH!)
But that would mean that Obortion has not yet censored all sanity.
Watching this floor debate is like watching the Jonestown massacre in slow motion, except it is America’s economy which would be committing suicide if this passes.
I just heard a rumor that it looks like they are going to pull the Waxman-Markley bill they don’t have the votes.
If indeed the case, it appears that voters still have at least a small amount of influence in Washington. Isn’t it charming that our thug politicians will only do the right thing if threatened with the loss of their power!
Chilling.
The very idea of anthropogenic global warming is laughable. Only in a country where the population has been so dumbed down by a public school system knowingly and willingly engaging daily in educational malpractice can such a “theory” ever have gotten taken seriously.
We are not even ANTS in our effects on the global climate, we just aren’t that powerful. Only idiots and fools or the willingly duped, can remotely believe that we by engaging in burning things are going to destroy the entire planet or effect global climate.
Here’s the deal folks.. the climate of the earth is controled by factors far beyond anything we can do. The output of the sun is the number one factor, the location of the earth relative to it, precession, other cosmic radiation the earth is exposed to, etc etc also play a part.
Here’s the facts, if we could harness just 1/10,000th or .0001% of the solar radiation that hits the earths surface every day we’d have enough energy to power the entire world to live like the United States does in terms of energy consumption and never ever have to get energy from any other source.
Think about that folks... 1/10000th of the daily energy delivered to the earth is that much energy!! Now multiply that energy by 10,000!!!! That’s how much energy the earth is bombarded with every day by the sun. Just small relative variations in solar output are going to have climate impacts on the planet, far and above ANYTHING humans could ever possibly do... You burning or not burning gasoline or oil or coal is not going to do it. Its just flat out laughable.
Here’s the reality, men are not gods, animals are not men. We just don’t have the ability to affect the global climate in these sorts of ways..about the only way we could would be all out nuclear winter, which would prevent sun from reaching the surface for a few years... not some carbon molecule in the atmosphere miraculously superheating the atmosphere... its just flat out silliness.
We are not gods, stop being foolish enough to think we are.
Today, the meterologist on our local station actually said during his weathercast that we are in a global cooling trend. I was flabbergasted (but pleased). I couldn’t believe that he would be so brave as to buck the “powers that be” on the whole global warming fiasco.
Dr Roger Revelle, the “inventor” of AGW and teacher of Algore at Harvard, the one who filled little Al’s head with all this crap, also became a skeptic at the end of his life. Al said his mentor went senile.
18,000 of us signed this more than 10 years ago.
There are now more than 31,000 scientists who've signed the petition saying there is no human-caused global warming.
I have no idea what that sentence means. Could someone please translate that for me. Thanks.
I would venture to say that if we were spewing out the levels of pollution that were being generated in the “industrial era”, but with the number of factories and level of population we have now, we could affect the climate to some degree. (I remember when the Cuyahoga River caught fire in the 60s and dead fish were lining the coasts of Lake Erie.) But we aren’t generating that kind of pollution and haven’t been for some time. We simply don’t need this silly “cap and trade” garbage.
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