Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics

EPW -Senator James Inhofe (Ranking Minority Member) ^ | 05/16/2007 | Marc Morano

[driftless2]

Cockburn is actually a fullbore socialist and not a mere parasitic liberal. Most American libs give lip service to the "ideals" of socialism without ever changing their behavior. They would actually hate having to live in a real socialist society, but it sounds good to voice support for it.

Real socialists like Cockburn would actually like to remake American into a large Cuba. But apparently even a stopped clock is right every now and then, since Cockburn has a screwy position on everything else except gw.

[Pentagon Leatherneck]

That would be a good one. But the flip side of that finding might lend credence to the AGW version; the “Intel community” has its fair share of liberal nutcases.

TC

[driftless2]

"Sheryl Crow"

Sheryl is in a real bind at the moment. She's in a stall somewhere needing another square, and she asked her neighbor if she could spare a square. Unfortunately her neighbor could not spare a square.

[AFPhys]

“I think we can thank the internet and forums like FreeRepublic” [for scientists coming around...]
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Don’t forget, now, the blogs.

One of the most effective charts I have seen recently depicting the actual DATA (I keep coming around to that) and comparing it to the “computer models” the IPCC and the alarmists so depend on to "Prove Man is Responsible for Global Warming/ Climate Change" was posted by “Climate Watcher”
http://climatewatcher.blogspot.com/

I have it below -— Briefly, one of the BEST “Models” was run for periods that we actually have decent DATA for, and the model’s expectations were compared to the actual DATA ... “Climate Watcher” did a great service with his graphical description, I think.

There is a passing similarity in some parts of the model’s predictions to the actual DATA, but anyone believing we ought to gamble on the order of 5% or more of the world’s economy based on this type of flimsy evidence “tilting at windmills” that won’t be built for many decades needs to have their head examined. SOMETHING is clearly not right with the way these models are now programmed. The fact that they only include about 15% of the Sun’s output that hits the earth as affecting temperatures, clearly to me, suggests that as highly likely be a fruitful avenue for further exploration.

“The upper left panel is from the NASA GISS model E output of temperatures from 1995 through 2006. The trends include known forcings to 2003 and follow the A1B scenario forcings after 2003.

“The upper right panel depicts observed temperatures since 1995 from the UAH MSU.
The lower right panel depicts observed temperature change from the RSS MSU record since 1995.
The lower left panel depicts temperature change in the radiosonde data (RATPAC) since 1979.”

Altitude (by pressure in millibars) is on the vertical scale.
Latitude (from equator - Arctic on the right) is on the horizontal scale.

[Joan Kerrey]

Why is this coming up again? The U.N. has determined that there is no longer any doubt. The issue is resolved. Rather than fighting consensus we should be buying boats, life rafts and houseboats. If anyone wants survival advice and you’re in the death valley area of California look for my houseboat (the one on 30 foot stilts) right outside of town. Come nude, it’s getting hotter out here.

[Gritty]

[AFPhys]

ROTFLMPO...

[rgboomers]

“To have Al Gore win an Oscar for a bogus documentary film about man-made global warming is the ultimate incarnation of bullshit.”

More true than you have said. I watched Al Gore win the oscar. It was not given to him by the Motion Picture Academy. Al Gore really did not even win the Oscar. Al Gore was in a movie that won an Oscar. There is a big difference between that and winning an Oscar for oneself.

What happened is that the producers of “An Inconvenient Truth” won the Oscar. One of them made a speech that they were going to share it with Al Gore and handed it to him. Then as they left the stage Al Gore gave the Oscar back to the people who really won it. Al Gore did not win an Oscar and does not have one to display or show to people. He did not even win an Oscar. The MSM is misreporting this. It really is BS.

[Chances Are]

Beatlemania????

While I, too, was going to cite Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, this is a little over the top...

CA....

[Red Badger]

I’m old enough to remember Beatlemania, and it was really a hysteria limited to the females’ segment of society. Guys didn’t care all that much.............

[UlmoLordOfWaters]

BUMP for later reading...

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

You know, I’ve been listening to Rush since early 1990 and I do believe that he was the first “major” media figure to discount global warming. I do not remember all the details but it seems like he has always used facts to back up his position. I wonder what the real reasons why all these people are coming around?

You don't have to have a PHD to smell bullsh*t.

What is bullshit?

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Global Warming is a fact. It's Anthropogenic Global Warming that is nonsense. I know many posters on FR use GW rather than AGW as a form of shorthand. However the world really does seem to be in one of its periodic warming periods at the moment - so we should be careful to frame the debate on the correct grounds.

The climate is always changing. Global temperatures will either rise or fall. At any point in time there is a 50% probability that they will rise. And a 100% probability that they will either rise or fall.

This may come as a shock to the general public, but it's a fact.

[Paladin2]

I thought the peak was 1998.

[Just mythoughts]

Tell Rummy we miss him.

[Chances Are]

I'm old enough to remember it, too. My mother thought the en masse swooning by the girls, while interesting, was no worse than what happen to the young ladies when Frank Sinatra made the scene.

While neither one of us was around for tulipomania, it would be a mistake, a faux pas, if you will, to compare Beatlemania to what was genuinely an Extraordinary Popular Delusion.

CA....

[Red Badger]

Somehow I just can’t picture girls swooning over Frank Sinatra...........or Bing Crosby...........

[DungeonMaster]

There are people that don’t believe in evolution too, just don’t try to tell that to the media or the school system.

[lepton]

Need....more.....paragraphs. :)