Posted on 06/23/2006 3:38:14 PM PDT by neverdem
Repent Now! The end is at hand!
A panel of eminent scientists testified yesterday at a congressional hearing on global warming, showing up just short of wearing sandwich boards splashed with warnings of the wrath to come.
They presented a report by the National Academy of Sciences, 155 pages of hysteria and hyperbole, suggesting that the Earth is running...
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Hence "global warming" has become the religion -- the opiate, you might say -- of Scientific Man, a doctrine supported by quackery, supposition and speculation, and as closely held and as ferociously defended as the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection at a gathering of devout Christians. You could ask the Rt. Rev. Al Gore, the presiding archbishop of the First Church of the Boiling Globe.
The bishops and monsignors of the church treat dissent harshly, though not yet at the stake. Richard Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, writes in the Wall Street Journal of the fate of academic dissenters to orthodox doctrine. "[T]here is a sinister side to this feeding frenzy. Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science that supposedly is their basis."
He recalls how Mr. Gore, as a senator in 1992, tried to bullyrag dissenting scientists. Indeed, it was about this time that Mr. Gore, at a luncheon interview with editors and reporters at The Washington Times, suggested that we join the fun, too, and even if we printed stuff that wasn't exactly true it would be OK because the cause was just. This is Mr. Gore's "inconvenient truth."
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
You selected a period of record (1931-99 or some subset thereof) during which the all-time record low temperature occurred later than the all-time record high temperature. Natural scientists of all types knowingly and unknowingly analyze only partial periods of record. Some scientists analyze partial time series for various valid reasons, particularly a lack of data in a particular format outside the analyzed period or time to analyze that data. Global warming hawks, however, often tend to select periods of record that concentrate intense warming or some other unwanted consequence (drought, flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, disease, et cetera). By considering only the upswing quarter of a sinusoidal oscillation, one might extrapolate the data to suggest a linear trend that leads inevitably to dire consequences. Such analyses often discount the more likely possibility that the system oscillates naturally and will return to equilibrium at some future time.
Nicely stated. It is also interesting to note that nearly 70% of the much touted 1 degree C. increase over the last century occurred in the first half of the century. The rate of increase has been in decline ever since suggesting approach to the apogee of your sinusoidal curve.
But dude, there's no grant money, book deals and bookings on the lecture circuit thinking like that.
"By considering only the upswing quarter of a sinusoidal oscillation, one might "...extrapolate the data to suggest a linear trend that leads inevitably to dire consequences. Such analyses often discount the more likely possibility that the system oscillates... "
OH MY GUH--OH MUH-MUH-MUH-OMAGODOMAGODH-OH-OH-OH--NNOOOOO!!!
WE'RE IN THE GRIP OF A GLOBAL OSCILLATION CRISIS!!!
(Did I get it right?)
Global warming is caused by the SUN! End of report..send the money to me at my e-mail address.
Just more evidence that many mainstream scientists are faith-driven and ideologically intolerent. Disagree with the faith claims of Darwinism? Say goodbye to tenure. Disagree with the faith claims of global warming alarmists? Say goodbye to your grants.
Scientists are among the most vicious and intolerent group of all-knowing suckheads on the planet.
Wow. An amazing increase of one degree in a whole century! To think that so many species have actually survived this sharp upturn, and have even increased their numbers! Mankind must surely perish should this dramatic shift continue at this unabated rate! But before we perish in agononizing misery, we will yet live to see kudzu, red fire ants, killer bees, alligators and even Mexicans drift further and further northward throughout the next century of doom.
I think I get this.
Hang around a college campus. Talk up a nice woman and mention "global warming" in your first 25 words. A 'deer in the headlights' look will occur.
No drinks necessary.
Cheape date! (Same as getting grants?)
Anyone that hasn't read the article on Global Warming in the June issue of National Review needs to read it. It's excellent and uses REAL science and shows all the flaws in the global warming argument, and the reality of what a money scam it is.
Got a free link?
Michael Savage said "not to worry" so I count me out of the debate. I think he is the perfect nut to follow.
Tropical plant fossils have been found in many places in the Arctic. At some time in the past the entire globe was apparently covered by a tropical environment. Who was responsible for that period of global warming, industries and power plants operated by dinosaurs and gas hogging SUVs driven by woolly mammoths?
Exactly.. "warmest it's been in 900 years"...
I have also read (BBC) warmest it's been in 1000 years..
It's all the same, they don't point out the warm trend that was taking place 1000 years ago,( Midieval Warm Period - 1100 AD to 1250 AD ) that farms that existed then in Greenland still can't grow crops today, that ice fields between Greenland and Newfoundland had retreated farther to the north than the Vikings could remember them being.. That grapevines were found in "Vinland"..
The other claim, "hottest in 400 years" is just as bad..
That's 1600 AD, the midst of the Little Ice Age..( 13th century to 19th century..)
Nearly EVERY year since we came out of the Little Ice Age has been warmer, as we approach NORMAL temps for the planet.. ( As normal as it can be with constantly changing variables..)
Of course, idiots will listen to the numbers and the claims associated with them rather than spend the time to learn a little bit about history..
National Academy of Science...the NPR (National Public Radio) of the scientific community.
Peak Global Warming?
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