Posted on 01/19/2007 6:23:25 AM PST by PJ-Comix
The entire Democrat party has now gone out on the limb with Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" that Global Warming is a sure thing. Nancy Pelosi has even formed a Congressional Global Warming COMMITTEE. Anyone who disagrees with this crackpot science is guilty of heresy according to the liberals. Should any weatherman dare to even question that Global Warming is imminent, they should be decertified as weather experts according to Heidi Cullen of the Weather Channel. Of course, the DUmmies completely support the decertification of any weather person who dares challenge the liberal orthodoxy on this subject as you can see in this THREAD titled, "Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics." So let us now watch the DUmmies call for the expulsion of all who do not buy into their crackpot science in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, never dreaming that his beloved Weather Channel would become an ally of the kook Left, is in the [brackets]:
Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics
[Expulsion for all those who do not BEEEEELEEEEEVE in the crackpot science of Global Warming.]
Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics
January 17, 2007
[Who would have believed that the Weather Channel would become a part of the kook Left?]
The Weather Channel’s most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which skeptics were compared to "Holocaust Deniers" and Nuremberg-style war crimes trials were advocated by several climate alarmists.
[Scientific questioning will NOT be tolerated!]
The Weather Channel’s (TWC) Heidi Cullen, who hosts the weekly global warming program "The Climate Code," is advocating that the American Meteorological Society (AMS) revoke their "Seal of Approval" for any television weatherman who expresses skepticism that human activity is creating a climate catastrophe.
[Was Heidi Culllen one of the jurors at the Galileo trial?]
"If a meteorologist can't speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn't give them a Seal of Approval. Clearly, the AMS doesn't agree that global warming can be blamed on cyclical weather patterns," Cullen wrote in her December 21 weblog on the Weather Channel Website.
[So what was the cause of Global Warming before there were even humans on this planet?]
"It's like allowing a meteorologist to go on-air and say that hurricanes rotate clockwise and tsunamis are caused by the weather. It's not a political statement...it's just an incorrect statement," Cullen added.
[Accept my crackpot theory or you will lose your job!]
To me, it's clearly a good thing that the scientific community is starting to step up and call out the few remaining flat-earthers.
[The same "scientific community" that used to warn us about Global Cooling.]
I certainly hope so. I really hope this shuts these ignorant right-wing motherf*ckers up for good. Anyone who denies global warming should not only be stripped of their certification, but should also not be allowed to teach.
[And be forced to spend time in a re-education camp.]
cast out the non-believers then, we'll stone them in the village square.
[Cast out the non-believers for their heresy!]
For a meteorologist to deny global warming is like an M.D. denying that germs exist.
[Or a DUmmie to deny that reality exists which they do on a daily basis.]
If you think that suppression of alternate arguments advances science, then let me tell you a little story about Galileo.... Any argument that relies on suppression and name-calling seems to me to not be able to punch on its own. Prolly seems that way to a lot of other people. Let the process work. No one argues about the sun rising tomorrow, because the evidence is manifest. Soon it will be so with climate change, too.
[And this DUmmie WINS a Kewpie Doll for having a brief moment of mental clarity.]
Not believing in global warming strikes me a bit like saying one doesn't believe in witches (aka Wiccans). They exist. Get used to it.
[Witches exist and so does Global Warming. Get used to it.]
Yeah, it's the future existence of the goddamned planet we're talking about. If certain scientists refuse to understand, by willful ignorance, the data then they should be discredited. Go back to school get some learnin' just like their dumbass leaderboy, bush.
[Should they go back to school at Pepperdine College in snowbound Malibu?]
These cretins need to have their credentials pulled as well. They can continue to say whatever they like.
[I say have a credential removal ceremony in the heart of snowbound Malibu.]
But to stifle science is wrong. Let science debate and we stay out of it.
[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]
Have you seen "Inconvenient Truth"?
[Produced by that highly skilled scientist, Al Gore.]
Where the hell have you been? The debate is over.
[And now we can completely close our minds to any inconvenient truths.]
I might even go one step further, and start reviewing broadcast licenses. After a few were yanked, I suspect that upper management and senior editors might actually start to police themselves and take serial liars like John Srossel off our public airwaves.
[Let the purges begin! Any questioning of liberal "science" orthodoxy shall result in BANISHMENT!]
Stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism? What next, burning books that have an alternate theory? Sorry, this is scary and dangerous, IMO. I remember the great "Global Freeze" theories of the 1970's. What if this had been done then?
[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]
The scientific community has not reached consensus about the cause. You're blending the near-consensus on warming, with the decidedly fractured range of opinions on what's responsible for the warming. Less than a thousand years ago, the Danes had established farming communities on Greenland (ever wonder why they called it Greenland, btw?), because a centuries-long warming period had freed the Southern Greenland landmass of ice and given it a climate similar to Scotland's. Three hundred years later, those farms were buried under hundreds of meters of ice, while Europe shivered through a Little Ice Age that regularly froze the Thames solid. Human-contributed greenhouse gases were obviously not the cause of either of those shifts. I staunchly believe climate change is underway right now. Let's allow good scientific debate to sort out the causes (political thinking, like religious thinking, is about dogma, not open inquiry). Politically, we'd be wise to assume that human activity is a major factor, and work to limit greenhouse emissions. That is, and should be, a progressive objective. Meanwhile, let science work through the evidence. Anyone who thinks there is a simple answer is unfamiliar with nonlinear causality in general, and the workings of climate in particular.
[Since you are making entirely too much sense, you may expect your imminent tombstoning.]
When we start casting out "heretics" it is no longer about science it is a religion.
[It is about POLITICS.]
Amazing to me that in 2007 we are still having to fend off people who would base SCIENCE on an ancient goat herder's religion.
[Abraham came along in the middle of a Global Warming. Or was it a Global Cooling?]
I wonder if she's even gotten to the page in meteorology 101 where it explains that hurricanes and typhoons are two names for tropical cyclones in different regions. Sheesh!
Exactly why is the worlds biggest polluter allowed to sign Kyoto but is completely free of all aspects of the Kyoto protocol and its wealth transfer scheme, is it because they are Communists?
sounds like there were lots of lousy freeper trolls on this thread. hehe. It's more believably than any possibility that there were several DUmmies with brief moments of mental clarity.
Of course, whether there is global is global warming or cooling going on depends entirely on the starting point you choose.
We are cooler than the medieval warm period but warmer than the little ice age. Your point of view depends on where you stand, physically and politically.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
I agree, it's a little scary that a few of them seemed rational.
My 16 year old son and I were discussing this the other day. I live in Mid Wisconsin, and during the Ice Age my house would have sat on a glacier. I told him that the next time someone says that global warming is always a bad thing, ask them if they enjoy the Great Lakes.
To that I would add 'financially' as well. As the meteorologist in the link I provided above states:
"Billions of dollars of grant money is flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global warming, the money dries up. This is big money, make no mistake about it. Always follow the money trail and it tells a story."
There's a lot of cash to be gained/lost depending on one's point of view.
Lebanese blonde hash, please, if I must be stoned.....makes my eyes red just thinking about it....
But I'll bet she would be perfectly fine with someone going on TV and saying that some tsumamis were triggered by a nuclear charge so that the evil Chimpy BushHitler could kill innocent Muslims in Indonesia.
BTW, I've never watched her because I knew right off what she was schlocking. My wife has and can't stand her.
Into the top 40 like a snail with Jato bolted to his shell!
There may well be an argument for limiting CO2 separate from the dire predictions of global warming. Or, it may just be government grabbing to control more of our economy.
Oh, I cannot wait for that fight. Bring it! We can prove global warming isn't caused by humans using charts from Al Gore's freakin' movie. We will own you!
I love how their evidence is so overwhelming that they feel they can call us flat earthers. Well then, why would they have to shut us up? Wouldn't it be like shutting up people who really believe the earth is flat because somebody might believe them?
BTW, did anybody see Brit Hume talk about this chick on the Grapevine segment last night? He quoted her "clockwise" line and then noted that hurricanes do move in that direction in the Southern Hemisphere.
If you scroll down to responses there is this:
Dr. Heidi Cullen, Climate Expert
Boy, with 'scientists' like you..who needs science? Tell me Ms Cullen, what was the change in temperatgure with respect to the mean from the 132,000 years ago to 132,150 years ago?
Sheesh, this is getting discusting...I haven't tuned into the wx channel for years (I am a meteorologist who doesn't find the need and in light of what you are suggesting I will NEVER tune in again and will encourage others not to).
Ms Cullen, why did the temperature according to the GISS data show more warming from 1860 to 1940 when CO2 was rising very little? This temp rise is more than half of the observed (data subject to discussion in and of itself). Then why did the temp drop from 1940-1980 when CO2 was rising more significantly? Why does CO2 in ice core data (again, subject to discussion based on extraction practices) show a lag with respect to temperature...ie temps go up and CO2 responds.
The science is not even close to being settled. CO2 is not the ultimate determiner of global temperature, a metric that cannot even be measured with much accuarcy to begin with. Your view disgusts this private Meteorologist.
tom skinner | January 18, 2007
Ms Cullen has called it on herself.
Oh yes, condemnation from a Weather Channel airhead is guaranteed to shame anyone into silence. I hope she never turns her guns on me!
Great! I'm glad to see such foolishness get some media attention. OTOH, I don't agree with your use of 'chick' in reference to her :>.
Cullen has just exposed him/herself as an absolute idiot, seriously! No real scientist or engineer or ANYONE with the capability of critical thinking, would say such an idiotic thing. And I say that as someone who BELIEVES in Global Warming, and thinks that it is probably that humans are responsible for at least some of it. But this call for the heads of the non-believers just exposes it for what it is, a Religion.
I'd like to see this DUmmie show me where any scientist has said "Global warming isn't happening" or "Global warming is happening but there's no way humans are causing it," and when asked for his evidence, he responded "Jesus and Moses told me so."
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