Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/12/2009 12:28:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Don't be fooled about climate science. In April 1994 – long after scientists had clearly demonstrated the addictive quality and devastating health impacts of cigarette smoking – seven chief executives of major tobacco companies denied the evidence, swearing in a US congressional hearing that nicotine was not addictive.
Now, the American public is again being subjected to those kinds of denials, this time about global climate change. While former Alaska governor Sarah Palin wrote in her recent opinion essay that she did not deny the "reality of some changes in climate," she distorted the clear scientific evidence that Earth's climate is changing, largely as a result of human behaviours. She also badly confused the concepts of daily weather changes and long-term climate trends when she wrote that "while we recognise the occurrence of these natural, cyclical environmental trends, we can't say with assurance that man's activities cause weather changes." Her statement inaccurately suggests that short-term weather fluctuations must be consistent with long-term climate patterns. And it is the long-term patterns that are a cause for concern.
Climate-change science is clear: the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide – derived mostly from the human activities of fossil-fuel burning and deforestation – stands at 389 parts per million (ppm). We know from studying ancient Antarctic ice cores that this concentration is higher than it has been for at least the past 650,000 years. Exhaustive measurements tell us that atmospheric carbon dioxide is rising by two ppm every year and that the global temperature has increased by about 1.1 degrees fahrenheit over the past century. Multiple lines of other evidence, including reliable thermometer readings since the 1880s, reveal a clear warming trend. The broader impacts of climate change range from rapidly melting glaciers and rising sea levels to shifts in species ranges.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Palin is uber-impressive. And I don’t mean just because of her gams, but her editorial writing has been superb. I write a LOT, and I am impressed.
Uh huh. The same kind of "scientists" who "clearly demonstrated" (through rigged evidence and false numbers) that global warming was real?
No liberal cause has any credibility any more. The whores at East Anglia proved that.
The author is confusing correlation with causality.
Why did they have to study ancient Antarctic ice cores? Why didn't they study the ice that made up The Great Lakes?
Oh, yeah. Because that ice melted 90,000 years before the SUV was a gleam in a car designer's eye.
It was advancing and retreating that created The Great Lakes and the water contained within is from thousands of feet of glacial ice that thawed.
Dumbasses.
Show me the raw data. Show me the notebooks. Show me the calculations. There can be no black boxes in real science, no “consensus” in the application of science in public policy.
Serious scientists don’t erase data. They don’t ignore series of numbers that don’t fit the hypothesis and they certainly don’t threaten editors with perishing if they publish the wrong authors.
Like the Boston information posted below, the “sources” in favor of AGW are speculation based on suppositions based on data that is more wishful thinking than empirical. “If” is not data. “will likely” is not evidence. “Discussion papers” are not proof.
As long as you only do one correlation plot it can have a strong influence on the weak-minded.
These are not the data we want. Move along
climate skeptics = people who believe the sun has an effect on climate.
I’d rather be fooled by Palin than have been a fool and voted for Obama.
“Climate-change science is clear: the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide – derived mostly from the human activities of fossil-fuel burning and deforestation – stands at 389 parts per million (ppm).”
The notion that most of the earth’s CO2 is created my man is IDIOCY! (It’s about 3%).
This idiot is a Global Warming Hoax denier.Perfect!
Palin is like that old washed up, ignorant actor who had the audacity to run for president and that makes them poop their pants with fear.
If I was one of the effete elite, I’m sure I could have summed it up in a book, or at least an op-ed in the NYT.
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