"The Facts Are In!!!"
None other than
Al Gore &
ARnold Schwarzenegger
agree on that
when it comes to
Global Warming.
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Lenin had a great word to describe this. He called it "agitprop," or agitation propoganda. The usefulness of agitprop is that it inflames the emotions and diverts the attention of the masses from other issues that might slow down the progress of socialist inevitability. (Many thanks to my leftist profs for teaching me this, thereby immunizing me from the impact of agitprop.) The weather is a perfect platform for agitprop. Any unusual weather pattern can be vaguely linked to global warming, contributing to a sense of uneasiness about whether or not global warming is "the truth." Al Gore's film is a great example of heightening emotions about the issue - and when the unease turns to panic as something very unusual happens, like a category 5 storm bearing down on New York, or a century-long drought in California (both of which have happened in the past), the left will be waiting to provide the "solution," which, of course, has actually very little to do with climate per se. As a tool for the left, global warming's value as agitprop is actually quite brilliant, since most people only see the minor fluctuations of the weather in their own lives and locations and know very little about the geological history of the planet. I must write a thank-you note to Lenin. </sarcasm>
Check this site out: www.FriendsOfScience.org
The keys to the debate on global warming lie in posing three questions:
1-How have you come to rule out natural climate change as a possible cause?
2-How have you mangaged to rule out solar activity? (Mars is warming)
3-If warming is exclusively caused by CO2, can you explain to me how, of the approximate one degree temperature change during the twentieth century, approximately three-fourths of it occurred prior to 1940?
What about the sun? Solar output is by no means constant and we know that the sun goes through cyclical periods of higher and lower output. To assume that human action by increasing CO2 is the cause could only be demonstrated if 1. solar output were constant over the measurement period or 2.the variance of solar output was compensated for in the model. I don't see either in Gore's rantings.
Listening to clips of Gore on his silly movie reminds me of Pat Paulson having a plank to create a toupee for Mount Baldy.
My favorite is that advancing glaciers in Greenland are a sign of global warming while while retreating glaciers in Alaska are also a sign of global warming.
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