Posted on 12/20/2006 7:46:46 PM PST by ancient_geezer
There are lots of lies surrounding the Global Warming mantra. The biggest one claims there is consensus among scientists that human-caused global warming is a fact. There is no such consensus.
"To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects."
-- Margaret Thatcher
"With respect to science, consensus is often simply a sop to scientific illiteracy. After all, if what you are told is alleged to be supported by all scientists, then why do you have to bother to understand it? You can simply go back to treating it as a matter of religious belief, and you never have to defend this belief except to claim that you are supported by all scientists except for a handful of corrupted heretics."
--- Dr. Richard Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The scientific method is the confirmation of hypothesis by independant observation, the test of theory to destruction. Consensus and belief are of the realm of politics and religion, skeptiscm and critical test are the realm of science.
Most excellent find bump, Geezer!
No credible evidence has been presented to me to cause me to believe that man can influence global temperature change.
This is another "follow the money" scam, IMHO. What is infuriating to me (and should be to all Americans) is that our tax dollars are supporting these Chicken Littles. I'd just as soon not fund their "research," TYVM!
BTW, Maine and West Virginia got some 'splainin' to do about their Bozo Senators!
As does, come to think on it, Floriduh, re: their Howdy Doody Senator expert on Syrian/US relations!
I say 2+2=4.
You say 2+2=6.
The Iraq Mathematics Committee reaches the consensus that 2+2=5.
Nope. Stalin's Russia came after that.
A proper warning - the AGWs have government thugs on their side, whether they want them or not.
The skeptics may err in their science, but not in their concern over censorship.
How long until we can throw global warming on the 'over-hyped media scare frenzy' pile along with africanized killer bees, nuclear power, Y2K, heterosexual aids epidemic, acid rain, bird flu, swine flu, not enough flu vaccine, the coming ice age...? Feel free to add to the list, I am tired of typing.
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thank you posting this
ping
Feel free to add to the list, I am tired of typing.
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
A complete list of things caused by global warming
Agricultural land increase,
Africa devastated,
African aid threatened,
air pressure changes,
Alaska reshaped,
allergies increase,
Alps melting,
Amazon a desert,
American dream end,
amphibians breeding earlier (or not),
ancient forests dramatically changed,
Antarctic grass flourishes,
anxiety,
algal blooms,
Arctic bogs melt,
Asthma,
atmospheric defiance,
atmospheric circulation modified,
avalanches reduced,
avalanches increased,
bananas destroyed,
bananas grow,
bet for $10,000,
better beer,
big melt faster,
billion dollar research projects,
billions of deaths,
bird distributions change,
birds return early,
blackbirds stop singing,
blizzards,
blue mussels return,
boredom,
Britain Siberian,
British gardens change,
bubonic plague,
budget increases,
building season extension,
bushfires,
business opportunities,
business risks,
butterflies move north,
cardiac arrest,
caterpillar biomass shift,
challenges and opportunities,
Cholera,
civil unrest,
cloud increase,
cloud stripping,
cod go south,
cold climate creatures survive,
cold spells (Australia),
computer models,
conferences,
coral bleaching,
coral reefs dying,
coral reefs grow,
coral reefs shrink ,
cold spells,
cost of trillions,
crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems,
cyclones (Australia),
damages equivalent to $200 billion,
Dengue hemorrhagic fever,
dermatitis,
desert advance,
desert life threatened,
desert retreat,
destruction of the environment,
diarrhoea,
disappearance of coastal cities,
diseases move north,
Dolomites collapse,
drought,
drowning people,
ducks and geese decline,
dust bowl in the corn belt,
early spring,
earlier pollen season,
Earth biodiversity crisis,
Earth dying,
Earth even hotter,
Earth light dimming,
Earth lopsided,
Earth melting,
Earth morbid fever,
Earth on fast track,
Earth past point of no return,
Earth slowing down,
Earth spinning out of control,
Earth to explode,
earth upside down,
Earth wobbling,
earthquakes,
El Niño intensification,
erosion,
emerging infections,
encephalitis,
Europe simultaneously baking and freezing,
evolution accelerating,
expansion of university climate groups,
extinctions (human, civilisation, logic, Inuit, smallest butterfly, cod, ladybirds, bats, pandas, pikas, polar bears, pigmy possums, gorillas, koalas, walrus, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang-utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species, less, not polar bears),
experts muzzled,
extreme changes to California,
famine,
farmers go under,
figurehead sacked,
fish catches drop,
fish catches rise,
fish stocks decline,
five million illnesses,
floods,
Florida economic decline,
food poisoning, food prices rise,
food security threat (SA),
footpath erosion,
forest decline,
forest expansion,
frosts,
fungi invasion,
Garden of Eden wilts,
genetic diversity decline,
gene pools slashed, glacial retreat,
glacial growth,
glacier wrapped,
global cooling,
global dimming,
glowing clouds,
Gore omnipresence,
grandstanding,
grasslands wetter,
Great Barrier Reef 95% dead,
Great Lakes drop,
greening of the North,
Gulf Stream failure,
habitat loss,
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome,
harvest increase,
harvest shrinkage,
hay fever epidemic,
hazardous waste sites breached,
heat waves,
hibernation ends too soon,
hibernation ends too late,
high court debates,
human fertility reduced,
human health improvement,
human health risk,
hurricanes,
hydropower problems,
hyperthermia deaths,
ice sheet growth,
ice sheet shrinkage,
inclement weather,
infrastructure failure (Canada),
Inuit displacement,
Inuit poisoned,
Inuit suing,
industry threatened,
infectious diseases,
insurance premium rises,
invasion of midges,
island disappears,
islands sinking,
itchier poison ivy,
jellyfish explosion,
Kew Gardens taxed,
krill decline,
lake and stream productivity decline,
landslides,
landslides of ice at 140 mph,
lawsuits increase,
lawsuit successful,
lawyers' income increased (surprise surprise!),
lightning related insurance claims,
little response in the atmosphere,
Lyme disease,
Malaria, malnutrition,
Maple syrup shortage,
marine diseases,
marine food chain decimated,
marine dead zone,
Meaching (end of the world),
megacryometeors,
Melanoma,
methane emissions from plants,
methane burps,
melting permafrost,
Middle Kingdom convulses,
migration,
migration difficult (birds),
microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly,
more bad air days,
more research needed,
mountain (Everest) shrinking,
mountains break up,
mountains taller,
mudslides,
next ice age,
Nile delta damaged,
no effect in India,
nuclear plants bloom,
oaks move north,
ocean acidification,
outdoor hockey threatened,
oyster diseases,
ozone loss,
ozone repair slowed,
ozone rise,
Pacific dead zone,
personal carbon rationing,
pest outbreaks, pests increase,
phenology shifts,
plankton blooms,
plankton destabilised,
plankton loss,
plant viruses,
plants march north,
polar bears aggressive,
polar bears cannibalistic,
polar bears drowning,
polar bears starve,
polar tours scrapped,
psychosocial disturbances,
railroad tracks deformed,
rainfall increase,
rainfall reduction,
refugees,
reindeer larger,
release of ancient frozen viruses,
resorts disappear,
rice yields crash,
rift on Capitol Hill,
rioting and nuclear war,
rivers raised,
rivers dry up,
rockfalls,
rocky peaks crack apart,
roof of the world a desert,
Ross river disease,
salinity reduction,
salinity increase,
Salmonella,
salmon stronger,
sea level rise,
sea level rise faster,
sex change,
sharks booming,
shrinking ponds,
ski resorts threatened,
slow death,
smog,
snowfall increase,
snowfall reduction,
societal collapse,
songbirds change eating habits,
sour grapes,
spiders invade Scotland,
squid population explosion,
squirrels reproduce earlier,
spectacular orchids,
stormwater drains stressed,
taxes,
tectonic plate movement,
terrorism,
ticks move northward (Sweden),
tides rise, tourism increase,
trade winds weakened,
tree beetle attacks,
tree foliage increase (UK),
tree growth slowed,
trees could return to Antarctic,
trees less colourful,
trees more colourful,
tropics expansion,
tropopause raised,
tsunamis,
turtles lay earlier,
UK Katrina,
Venice flooded,
volcanic eruptions,
walrus pups orphaned,
war,
wars over water,
water bills double,
water supply unreliability,
water scarcity (20% of increase),
water stress,
weather out of its mind,
weather patterns awry,
weeds,
Western aid cancelled out,
West Nile fever,
whales move north,
wheat yields crushed in Australia,
white Christmas dream ends,
wildfires,
wind shift,
wind reduced,
wine - harm to Australian industry,
wine industry damage (California),
wine industry disaster (US),
wine - more English,
wine -German boon, wine -
no more French ,
winters in Britain colder,
wolves eat more moose,
wolves eat less,
workers laid off,
World bankruptcy,
World in crisis,
Yellow fever.and all on 0.006 deg C per year!
OK, I agree with all points in this article. Major questions still remain though... Why are they all pushing a lie? Who stands to benefit? Who's behind it? How are they accomplishing this feat of mass manipulation?
Arrgh! My head spins!
What? The passing of gas by both humans and animals doesn't contribute to global warming?
Certainly throughout history there have been various local and global climate changes. Re dinosaurs got their payback for all that flatulence, right? England was once a sunny place! Anyhow, these "Global Warming" types are after fame, fortune and power. UN Third Worlders will have the treasure of the West at their disposal. These types will spend all your money coercing/forcing you save the world from yourself! Meanwhile, we'll have wasted our opportunities to turn a warmer world to our advantage or prepare for a cooler one.
Nah, global warming just don't cause those things to happen. LOL
ping
>> Why are they all pushing a lie?
Because they are unable to push the truth. It's too inconvenient.
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