Video: Why AGW hysteria is a bad bet

Hot Air ^ | June 30, 2011 | Ed Morrissey

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Why The Left's Global Warming Agenda Is Flat Out Wrong

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Dr. Roy Spencer teamed up with Declaration Entertainment’s Bill Whittle to produce a new chalk-talk deconstruction of the global-warming debate.  Spencer has a new Encounter Broadside book, The Bad Science and Bad Policy of Obama’s Global Warming Agenda (Kindle version here), discussing his skepticism over the claims of anthropogenic global-warming hysterics who claim that the world is about to end unless we take drastic action now. Spencer explains exactly what is at stake in the debate, and why claims of “consensus” ignore legitimate and deep questions about the science and conclusions of the AGW crowd:

If anything, Spencer might be a little too kind to those who advocate an end to carbon-based energy. There exists a significant number of people hostile to the idea of technological progress at all, who want humans to return to the “dirty, smelly, and difficult” lifestyle in order to make mankind more “natural.” Carbon energy allowed for large-scale advances in longevity, industry, and health, but for those who embrace the Malthusian vision of mankind as some sort of marauding virus in nature, those aren’t advances at all. They’re indications of blight — and they would rather see human numbers cut dramatically.

Most people, though, are concerned about the environment in balance with their ability to live and produce. Those people get seduced by the notion that so-called green energy is ready to replace carbon-based energy either right now or in the immediate future, a promise that has been made for decades and has failed to deliver despite billions and billions in subsidies each year for that purpose. They believe that a choice doesn’t exist between progress and destruction when it comes to limiting energy use, but Spencer makes the reality of this decision very clear in this video. I’m looking forward to reading his Broadside this weekend.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good Video.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx for the ping Ernest_at_the_Beach !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[oyez]

-- would rather see human numbers cut dramatically.

Algore is no friend of mankind nor Western Culture. The Eastern peoples will not be convinced to cut their numbers . At some point human progress will come to an end and start to sink back to the Dark Ages. --

[oyez]

-- would rather see human numbers cut dramatically.

Algore is no friend of mankind nor Western Culture. The Eastern peoples will not be convinced to cut their numbers . At some point human progress will come to an end and start to sink back to the Dark Ages. --

[oyez]

And we have too many Liberal Arts people teaching Science. So it goes. Science gave us Love Canal, DDT, Thalidomide, bad LSD trips, gun powder, nuclear weapons, and global warming. Science has taken man further that he he is supposed to go.

And these people tell us that belief in a supreme being is backward.

[jyro]

fighting climate change is useless, prepare for it

[jyro]

fighting climate change is useless, prepare for it

[ADemocratNoMore]

bttt

[BIGLOOK]

Thanks Ernest.

The next degree change in the temperature should come along within the hour over here....maybe three to six degrees....but that's because the sun has set and the skies are clear. That's the natural diurnal cycle affecting temperature of course, it could have been cloudy and the land and sea would stay warm and the chances for rain this holiday weekend would increase which in turn would put a damper on 4th of July barbecues. The result would be less travel in cars to visit friends, the beach or the volcano for a little get together and added to the shutdown of industry for the holiday would reduce the output of CO2 into the atmosphere......but it would still remain warm.

Hmmm.....let me leave out visits by folks to the volcano......the volcanic emissions haven't stopped since 1983, rain or shine, whether anyone visits there or not.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

[SouthTexas]

Good one, thanks!