[Eric Blair 2084]

Newsweek vs Newsweek. This is the rebuttal in this weeks issue.

[Sundog]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1880150/posts

This is about the most blatant case of changing the data to fit the theory I have ever heard of. Let newsweek chew on this.

[curiosity]

Robert Samuelson is a columnist, not a news reporter. He's rebutting a news story in his opinion column, and doing it very well, I might add.

I respect him a lot. He's not a conservative, but he thinks clearly and is very good at exposing illogic on both the right and the left. He's the son of Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Samuelson, and the quality of his analysis reveals that his daddy taught him well.

[Tzimisce]

...well, they’re admitting they are wrong and I guess that is something....

[samtheman]

A Time cover in 2006 was more alarmist: BE WORRIED, BE VERY WORRIED.

You don't get a much better example of the authoritarians lecturing to the perceived "little people" than this.

[Weeedley]

Newsweek and the rest of the MSM would not know a moral crusade if it spanked them with the business end of a 2 by 4.

[samtheman]

The bottom-line test to see if someone really believes that GW is caused by us and extremely dangerous is this:

Do you support increased nuclear power?

If your answer is no, then you aren’t really all that worried about AGW.

[Squawk 8888]

The author still misses the point completely. He’s operating on the assumption that CO2 emissions are a problem, a premise that has been thoroughly debunked.

[curiosity]

Samuelson loves to play the part of the realist curmudgeon. I sympathize with that, because often I feel like that's my role as an economist. I like this line:

One way or another, our assaults against global warming are likely to be symbolic, ineffective or both.

In fact, I would add that many of our assaults are in fact counterproductive, creating unintended consequences that will make the problem worse. See the ethanol boondogle.

[sourcery]

Basic References:

• Hostages to a hoax
• Water Experts Find Earth’s Warming, Rainfall Linked to Sun
• Milankovitch Cycles and Glaciation
• The Myth of Dangerous Human-Caused Climate Change (PDF)
• Up against the warming zealots
• When Physics Trumps Hysteria in Global Warming
• Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
• Global Warming: Forecasts by Scientists versus Scientific Forecasts
• Geophysical, archeological and historical evidence support a solar-output model for climate change (PDF)
• Gamma rays and climate (PDF)
• Temperature vs. Cosmic Ray Flux
• Linkages between solar activity, climate predictability and water resource development (PDF)
• Proof on Ice: Southern Greenland Was Once Green; Earth Warmer
• Global Warming and Nature's Thermostat
• The Past and Future of Climate (PDF)
• The Great Global Warming Swindle
• IceCap

Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):

• Science, not politics
• Statistics needed
• The original denier: into the cold
• End the chill
• They call this a consensus?
• The limits of predictability
• Unsettled science
• Models trump measurements
• The ice-core man
• The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science
• Polar scientists on thin ice
• The sun moves climate change
• Bright sun, warm Earth. Coincidence?
• Look to Mars for the truth on global warming
• Read the sunspots
• Forget warming - beware the new ice age
• Little Ice Age is still with us
• Fighting climate 'fluff'

Other References:

• Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny
• The Global Warming Myth
• Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective
• Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
• IPCC Scientists Challenge Al Gore’s View of Global Warming Consensus
• Swedish Scientist Accuses UN's IPCC of Falsifying Data and Destroying Evidence
• CO2 Science
• Global Warming and Climate Forcing by Recent Albedo Changes on Mars
• Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics
• The Real 'Inconvenient Truth'
• New findings indicate today's greenhouse gas levels not unusual
• Climate Change: Incorrect information on pre-industrial CO2
• Global Warming as a Religion
• I Was On the Global Warming Gravy Train (By David Evans)
• Global Warming: it's not caused by greenhouse gases says academic
• Still Waiting for Greenhouse
• GREENIE WATCH
• Why Global Warming Would be Good for You
• Global Warming Primer (PDF)
• Global Warming: An Official Pseudoscience
• Sun's Output Increasing in Possible Trend Fueling Global Warming
• Fiddler On The Roof
• Debating Global Warming
• Climate Resistance

[xcamel]

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Kinda, sorta, might be a re-ping.

[goldstategop]

Robert Samuelson points out any REAL solution to global warming would impose costs Americans would likely find intolerable. And there's no chance the Third World will give up its goal to attain a First World living standard just to soothe guilty Westerners' environmental sensibilities. So in reality, the whole thing is over-promoted and over-hyped. I don't think global warming is real but on the offhand possibility it might be - my view is the human race will manage to adapt well to any climate change on this planet.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Global warming has clearly occurred; the hard question is what to do about it.

Sure. It was 150 degrees in Chicago yesterday.