Posted on 09/07/2004 7:29:53 AM PDT by ZGuy
Very ironic since the CO2 greenhouse theory depends on the effect of water vapor. CO2 by itself does not trap enough heat to explain any kind of warming. So the theory is that it induces more water to evaporate which is what causes the warming. They assume that this positive feedback increases the CO2 effect by a factor of ten.
The theory doesn't work though. Changes in solar output have been measured directly but the feedback effect on atmospheric temperature is absent.
Just a few months ago (December if I recall), there was a lengthy cover story about the technology and power of the U.S. military jets. I'm sure it had all the lefties bemoaning how pro-war NG has become, proving my point that bias is in the eye of the beholder more than the ink of the page.
Ditto. That money goes to NewsMax now.
I remember that one. I looked at it and seriously considered buying it, but didn't see anything in the article that was really out of the ordinary relative to what I could find in other military-aviation publications.
There was also a small article a while back about the 40th anniversary of Operation Sea Orbit (USS Enterprise, USS Long Beach, USS Bainbridge nuclear circumnavigation) ...
It presents a constant barrage of liberal tripe -- pro-radical environmentalism, global warming, anti-hunting, etc.
The editor's letter in the beginning of the magazine states that the articles will probably make people cancel their subscription but, they don't care... It's not my dad's magazine anymore.
I wonder who they'll blame when the North and South poles flip?
A theory of mine, and it's just armchair speculation, is that whenever the poles flip, the magnetosphere is weakened and thus causes a blip in the global environment. It's got to cause some kind of change, and no one (liberal media) seems to even care that some other factor may be involved.
"Global warming" reminds me of the Y2K problem, except compounded by 10000%. All so those "scientists" can get their damn grant to pay for pizzas and beakers outta my tax dollars. Let me decide where it goes, and a cure for cancer would have been made by now. (/Rant)
Same here Bert - my MIL gives me a subscription to NG for Christmas each year. I finally told her enough. I suggested a different magazine she could give me.
I quit opening them years ago and just tossed them into the trash. At least now I will get a magazine I will actually read.
You discovered a stack of old Playboy®s in the neighbor's garage, like I did?
Me, too!
My bet is that you've never had to write to a strict word count. The article here is about 800 words, and if this guy were to go over it, the article would not be usable by the editors -- they budget a certain amount of space for an article, and if the article doesn't fit, it either gets trimmed or tossed. It's the way things are in the writing business. You can only cover so much detail in 800 words -- it's FINITE. To call this a "feeble excuse" for not expounding more is ridiculous.
I agree. I cancelled them after they did the 'hit' piece on GWB.
Cancer could probably have been cured with the money spent on anti-smoking ads.
Then there was that formative period when, comparing NG to the "other magazines", I became convinced that gravity must be a lot stronger in Africa.
"Global warming" is man-made all right, but not the way greens would have us believe. The effect is local. We place too many of the weather stations near cities and other artifacts of civilization. It's like mounting the thermostat on the furnace.
Balloon and satellite records agree with each other -- there hasn't been much warming in the last fifty years.
http://www.greeningearthsociety.org/Articles/2000/surface1.htm
And not new...
In the early 1990s Lindzen was asked to contribute to the IPCC's 1995 report. At the time, he held (and still does) that untangling human influences from the natural variation of the global climate is next to impossible. When the report's summary came out, he was dismayed to read its conclusion: "The balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate." "That struck me as bizarre," he says. "Because without saying how much the effect was, the statement had no meaning.
If it was discernible and very small, for instance, it would be no problem." Environmentalist Bill McKibbon referred to this phrase in an article in The Atlantic in May 1998: "The panel's 2,000 scientists, from every corner of the globe, summed up their findings in this dry but historic bit of understatement."
In an angry letter, Lindzen wrote that the full report "takes great pains to point out that the statement has no implications for the magnitude of the effect, is dependent on the [dubious] assumption that natural variability obtained from [computer] models is the same as that in nature, and, even with these caveats, is largely a subjective matter."
Lindzen is a true scientist who goes where the facts leads him, and was one of the core members of the knowledgeable scientists who contributed to the IPCC's 1995 report, and in his own words, describes how facts were twisted and extrapolated in jr. high school fashion to arrive at the predetermined result.
Actually, it can mean both. From Merriam-Webster:
Main Entry: pe·ruse
Pronunciation: p&-'rüz
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): pe·rused; pe·rus·ing
Etymology: Middle English, to use up, deal with in sequence, from Latin per- thoroughly + Middle English usen to use
1 a : to examine or consider with attention and in detail : STUDY b : to look over or through in a casual or cursory manner
2 : READ; especially : to read over in an attentive or leisurely manner
Ditto.
I subscribed to and read the Scientific American religiously for over 30 years. When they started emphasizing social manipulation and touchy-feely subjects over science, I regretfully bailed. Never looked back.
I occasionally glance at an issue in the magazine section and sadly put it back on the rack. Science it no longer is...
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