Posted on 10/18/2007 6:57:32 AM PDT by ZGuy
"20/20” co-anchor John Stossel is going on the attack against “experts” who warn about manmade global warming – along the way berating Al Gore for saying the debate over climate change is over.
In a release from ABC previewing Stossel’s report on Friday’s “20/20,” the veteran newsman and Newsmax pundit – who won 19 Emmys exposing scammers and con artists – says:
“This week on ‘20/20’ (in our new 8 p.m. Eastern time slot) I say ‘Give Me a Break!’ to our Nobel Prize-winning Vice President.
“Mr. Gore says ‘The debate is over,’ and those who disagree with his take on global warming have been ‘purchased’ in order to create ‘the illusion of a debate.’ Nonsense. It's as if the Vice President and his allies in the environmental movement plan to win the debate through intimidation. I interview some scientists who won't be intimidated, even though one has had his life threatened for speaking up.
“The Vice President's much-applauded movie, ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ claims warming is man’s fault and a coming crisis! While the earth has certainly warmed over the last century, plenty of independent scientists say scientists cannot be sure that man caused the warming or that warming will be a crisis.
“They say the computer models that are used to predict the disasters don’t include important variables because scientists don’t fully understand them. For example, warming may cause cloud formations that reflect sun and cool the earth. The computer models cannot know. These scientists call global warming activism more of a religious movement than science.”
Gore's film is filled with “misleading messages,” says Stossel.
“It suggests polar bears are disappearing and that ‘sea levels worldwide would go up 20 feet.’ I interview children who are scared. They believe the polar bears are already going extinct and that the oceans will soon rise even higher than 20 feet, drowning them and their parents.
“But polar bear populations appear to be steady or increasing, and a 20-foot rise is a theoretical possibility that wouldn't happen for millennia. The IPCC, the group that shared last week’s Nobel Prize with the Vice President, says in 100 years the oceans might rise 7 to 24 inches, not 20 feet. Now a British judge has ruled that British schools must disclose to students nine inaccuracies in ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ if they play the movie in class.”
Stossel said it’s “nonsense” for Gore to suggest that we can stop global warming by doing things like changing light bulbs and driving less.
“The only practical thing we can do today that would make a difference in CO2 output is to launch a major shift toward nuclear energy. But the environmental movement rarely utters the word nuclear.
“I suspect that next year's government boondoggle will be massive spending on carbon-reducing technology.
“It reminds me of George Mason University Economics Department Chairman Don Boudreax's suggestion that such schemes really mean ‘government seizing enormous amounts of additional power in order to embark upon schemes of social engineering - schemes whose pursuit gratifies the abstract fantasies of the theory class and, simultaneously, lines the very real pockets of politically powerful corporations, organizations, and “experts."’
“He is so right. The abstract fantasies of the theory class will soon send huge chunks of your money to politicians, friends, activist scientists, and politically savvy corporations.
“The debate is over? That makes me say GIVE ME A BREAK!”
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A major hurricane will very likely hit first, and though that localized rise in sea level won't last very long, it will be significant.
"In fact the judgement systematically refers to "errors" (using inverted commas, which the media have generally ignored), and has some wise words to say on the distinction between presenting and promoting partisan views, and the balanced presentation of controversial issues (which he decides does not require equal "air-time" for views which are held only by small minorities). However, in his analysis of the "errors"the judge has also expressed unwarranted confidence on several issues which are still the subject of considerable uncertainty among the scientific community. It would be fair to say that Al Gore presents the more extreme (concerned) end of the range of scientific opinion on several issues, and implies stronger evidence than is fair on several others. However, overall the film still achieves an exceptionally high standard of scientific accuracy, and it is regrettable that the judge has triggered a media storm by the injudicious use of the term "errors". "
We need more “deniers” to stand up and expose this hoax for what it is.
It was a marketing gimmick. Greenland was as much glaciated as now except there were a couple pockets on the south shore that were ice-free enough for some hardy farmers to try it. It's still a topic around the family dinner table: Eric was marginal.
Stossel tells the truth, and the leftists hate him for it. I’m suprised ABC hasn’t canned him for not spouting the RAT party line. TV reporters who step out of lockstep are reviled by their former comrades; look at Bernie Goldberg.
Thank God. I’m hoping that Fat Albert winning the NPP is the equivalent of pulling the thread that unravels the NPP foolishness and the global warming hysteria. (with apologies in advance for the mixed metaphors)
So I looked it up, and not in a Wikipedeia reference "edited" by liberals. Enjoy!
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/greenland/
The failure of the Viking colony had to do with Church politics and poor agricultural management, but especially the Little Ice Age. Scandinavians were already old hands at dealing with cold weather, but in those days they couldn't respond to a worldwide cooling of the climate by building nuclear reactors. They had to move south.
Not as long as liberals remain able to block the path.
Don thy Asbestos Underwear Stossel.
Shouldn't Greenland be known as Iceland and vice versa?
And directly from the source material: Erik the Red's Saga: Chapter 2
"In the summer Eirik went to live in the land which he had discovered, and which he called Greenland, "Because," said he, "men will desire much the more to go there if the land has a good name."
Buyer beware.
George Mason University has a series of fantastic podcasts for the layman. They are here:
The label for the invisible graph reverses both colors: red = bad, blue = good.
So the result of the missing graph + reversed color schemes implies Antarctica is getting much, much worse!
“The UN’s IPCC - assuming you think they are accurate, but they ARE absolutely biased in “favor” of AGW theories and economic/socialist domination - predicts a 20 INCH rise in ocean levels over a period of 200-300 years.
Assuming the land itself doesn’t continue rising, as much of the northeast and Canada are actually doing as a rebound from the last Ice Age.”
Get in line, buddy!
Thanks for the ping!
So then we go to biofuels which will mostly be from palm plantations in Indonesia.
The islamofacists in Iraq and Afghanistan are models of sanity compared to the nutjobs in Indonesia!
BTTT
OOf. Thanks for noticing that. Apparently, the original images are no longer available.
Hmmmm.... I wonder why that might be....
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